Use of quarantine in the control of SARS in Singapore
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Auteurs : Peng Lim Ooi ; Sonny Lim ; Suok Kai Chew [Singapour]Source :
- American Journal of Infection Control [ 0196-6553 ] ; 2005.
Abstract
A total of 238 cases of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred in Singapore between February 25 and May 11, 2003. Control relied on empirical methods to detect early and isolate all cases and quarantine those who were exposed to prevent spread in the community.
On April 28, 2003, the Infectious Diseases Act was amended in Parliament to strengthen the legal provisions for serving the Home Quarantine Order (HQO). In mounting large-scale quarantine operations, a framework for contact tracing, serving quarantine orders, surveillance, enforcement, health education, transport, and financial support was developed and urgently put in place.
A total of 7863 contacts of SARS cases were served with an HQO, giving a ratio of 38 contacts per case. Most of those served complied well with quarantine; 26 (0.03%) who broke quarantine were penalized.
Singapore's experience underscored the importance of being prepared to respond to challenges with extraordinary measures. With emerging diseases, health authorities need to rethink the value of quarantine to reduce opportunities for spread from potential reservoirs of infection.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2004.08.007
PubMed: 15947741
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<pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>6</month><year>2005</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>9</day><month>6</month><year>2005</year></pub-date><volume>33</volume><issue>5</issue><fpage>252</fpage><lpage>257</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2005 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2005</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.</copyright-holder><license><license-p>Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><sec><title>Background</title><p>A total of 238 cases of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred in Singapore between February 25 and May 11, 2003. Control relied on empirical methods to detect early and isolate all cases and quarantine those who were exposed to prevent spread in the community.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>On April 28, 2003, the Infectious Diseases Act was amended in Parliament to strengthen the legal provisions for serving the Home Quarantine Order (HQO). In mounting large-scale quarantine operations, a framework for contact tracing, serving quarantine orders, surveillance, enforcement, health education, transport, and financial support was developed and urgently put in place.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>A total of 7863 contacts of SARS cases were served with an HQO, giving a ratio of 38 contacts per case. Most of those served complied well with quarantine; 26 (0.03%) who broke quarantine were penalized.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Singapore's experience underscored the importance of being prepared to respond to challenges with extraordinary measures. With emerging diseases, health authorities need to rethink the value of quarantine to reduce opportunities for spread from potential reservoirs of infection.</p></sec></abstract></article-meta><notes><p>Singapore</p></notes></front></pmc><affiliations><list><country><li>Singapour</li></country></list><tree><noCountry><name sortKey="Lim, Sonny" sort="Lim, Sonny" uniqKey="Lim S" first="Sonny" last="Lim">Sonny Lim</name><name sortKey="Ooi, Peng Lim" sort="Ooi, Peng Lim" uniqKey="Ooi P" first="Peng Lim" last="Ooi">Peng Lim Ooi</name></noCountry><country name="Singapour"><noRegion><name sortKey="Chew, Suok Kai" sort="Chew, Suok Kai" uniqKey="Chew S" first="Suok Kai" last="Chew">Suok Kai Chew</name></noRegion></country></tree></affiliations></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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