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Nature Medicine 9, 1441 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm1203-1441a

SARS spreads new outlook on quarantine models

Bruce Diamond1

  1. Washington, DC

When governments in Asia and Canada imposed quarantine measures at the height of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, most experts—particularly in the US—decried the tactics as outdated and ineffective (Nat. Med. 9, 487; 2003