Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - update on the international outbreak, 8 April 2003

The situation of the international outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was summarized by the International Department at the Institut de veille sanitaire in France as of 1900 hours Central European time, 8 April 2003, as follows. Data were compiled from the following sources: Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) Department of Health (http://www.info.gov.hk/dh/), Singapore Ministry of Health (http://app.moh.gov.sg/), Health Canada (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/), the World Health Organization (WHO, http://www.who.int), Center for Disease Control Taiwan, (http://www.cdc.gov.tw), Robert Koch-Institut, Germany (http://www.rki.de) , and other national public health institutes.