SARS: a case study in emerging infections.

1. Introduction 2. Environmental and social influences on emerging infectious diseases: past, present, and future 3. Evolutionary genetics and the emergence of SARS coronavirus 4. Influenza as a model system for studying the cross-species transfer and evolution of the SARS coronavirus 5. Management and prevention of SARS in China 6. Confronting SARS: A view from Hong Kong 7. The aetiology of SARS: Koch's postulates fulfilled 8. Laboratory Diagnosis of SARS 9. Animal origins of SARS coronavirus: possible links with the international trade in small carnivores 10. Epidemiology, transmission dynamics and control of SARS: the 2002-2003 epidemic 11. Dynamics of modern epidemics 12. The international response to the outbreak of SARS, 2003 13. The experience of the 2003 SARS outbreak as a traumatic stress among frontline healthcare workers in Toronto: lessons learned 14. Informed consent and public health 15. What have we learnt from SARS? References Index