Ethical questions posed by SARS crisis the way to learn for future outbreaks

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Ethical questions posed by SARS crisis the way to learn for future outbreaks

HELEN BRANSWELL
Canadian Press
07/13/03

TORONTO (CP) - Public health officials here and elsewhere need to learn the ethical lessons that can be taught by the SARS outbreak and the way it was handled, a prominent group of bioethicists suggest in a new report.

Such lessons include: when officials can publicly identify people who may be spreading an infectious disease; when mass quarantine policies are defensible; and whether health-care workers have a duty to treat patients despite risk to themselves.

All need to be considered in preparation for the next new infectious disease or the expected influenza pandemic, the report said.

 

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