Breaking News--WHO Informal Consultation Report on the Transmission of SARS CoV and Other Pathogenic Viruses through Fecal Droplets
The Mar. 2004 issue of PME will include a summarized news report on the following consultation results released by the World Health Organization and IAPMO. Here is the WHO report in full.
At the time of the Consultation (Sept. 2003), the global epidemic was estimated to have resulted in 8,097 cases of clinical illness, with 774 deaths in 27 countries on six continents. There are no reliable estimates of low-severity or asymptomatic infections. In Jul. 2003 the World Health Organization declared the epidemic to have come to an end.