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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [Congressional Sales Office], 2003. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)52833615 Subject: SARS (Disease) -- United States. Excerpt: ... 11 been extinguished. Just one hour ago, the World Health Organiza-tion announced that it is lifting its advisory against travel to To-ronto. The world owes an enormous debt to the dedicated health professionals who have worked tirelessly to protect our health from the threat of SARS. From Boston to Los Angeles and Seattle to Miami, the story is the same. Budgets have been cut to the bone, and there is no ex-cess capacity to meet new challenges like SARS. According to Dr. Kevin Stevens, the director of the New Orleans Public Health De-partment, ' ' We have very few resources, and if we should have a SARS outbreak, we are very poorly prepared. ' ' Dr. Laurene Mascola of Los Angeles County Department of Health Services said that, ' ' In California, about 2, 000 people die every month from unexplained pneumonia. We have dealt with SARS to the detriment of other diseases. ' ' One of the most effective ways to fight the spread of SARS is quarantine, yet many of the Nation's major health departments would be hard-pressed to use even this basic tool of disease con-tainment. In Philadelphia, for example, there is no city-owned hos-pital, and the health department has no funds to set up a quar-antine facility of its own. It would instead have to rely on hard-pressed independent hospitals to house SARS patients who need to be isolated. Seattle has only limited facilities to isolate contagious patients. That city is already facing the highest number of TB cases it has seen in 30 years. With only two full-time infectious disease physi-cians to serve over a million inhabitants, the city would soon be overwhelmed by a major epidemic. In Boston, the health department is already stretched thin, an-swering over 200 calls a day from people worried about SARS - and there
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