Evidence of Airborne Transmission of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Virus
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- 22 April 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 350 (17), 1731-1739
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa032867
Abstract
There is uncertainty about the mode of transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus. We analyzed the temporal and spatial distributions of cases in a large community outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong and examined the correlation of these data with the three-dimensional spread of a virus-laden aerosol plume that was modeled using studies of airflow dynamics.Keywords
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