Respiratory Infections during SARS Outbreak, Hong Kong, 2003

摘要

The effect of community hygienic measures during theoutbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in HongKong was studied by comparing the proportion of positivespecimens of various respiratory viruses in 2003 with thosefrom 1998 to 2002. Community hygienic measures signifi-cantly reduced the incidence of various respiratory viralinfections