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cord-322834-rl6yum7n	Wallinga, Jacco	Different Epidemic Curves for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Reveal Similar Impacts of Control Measures	2004-09-15		.txt	text/plain	4139	185	46	The available epidemic curves for SARS show marked differences between the affected regions with respect to the total number of cases and epidemic duration, even for those regions in which outbreaks started almost simultaneously and similar control measures were implemented at the same time. In this paper, we interpret the observed epidemic curves with regard to disease transmission potential and effectiveness of control measures, and we compare the epidemiologic profiles of SARS outbreaks in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, and Canada. The model uses values of k t = 0.18 for cases with a symptom onset date before March 12, 2003 , and k t = 0.08 for cases with a symptom onset date on or after March 12, 2003 ; these values correspond to the distribution of the number of secondary infections per case as observed during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Singapore (4).	./cache/cord-322834-rl6yum7n.txt	./txt/cord-322834-rl6yum7n.txt