Business/Financial Desk
| April 23, 2003, Wednesday
THE SARS
EPIDEMIC: CANADA; Health Officials Seek Help
From U.S. to Control Virus
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN (NYT) 1098
words
Late Edition - Final , Section A ,
Page 6 , Column 5
ABSTRACT
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
team arrives in Canada to help Canadian
officials control continued spread of SARS;
officials advise health care workers in
Toronto area hospitals to wear double sets
of gowns and gloves and full face shields
when caring for SARS patients; advise
hospitals and clinics to clean treatment
rooms more stringently and restrict access
to rooms; respond to continued spread of
illness among health care workers and
studies suggesting virus can survive on
objects for 24 hours (M) Canadian health
officials, concerned about the continued
spread of the illness known as SARS among
health care workers and new studies
suggesting that the virus can survive on
objects for 24 hours, have asked experts
from the United States Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention to visit their
hospitals and help them control the epidemic
there.
The C.D.C. team from Atlanta arrived
yesterday as health workers caring for SARS
patients in hospitals in the Toronto area
were advised to wear two sets of gloves and
two gowns as well as full face shields while
caring for patients with SARS, or severe
acute respiratory syndrome. Earlier, health
workers were advised to wear only one set of
gloves and gown and a special mask.
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