SARS--my personal battle.

Travel Med Infect Dis

Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Road, Singapore.

Published: May 2011

It isn't every day that a doctor becomes a patient. It is more peculiar when it occurs with an unknown mysterious epidemic respiratory illness that kills. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) gripped the world in 2003, spreading via air-links and throwing the global economy into disarray. As a practicing physician in Singapore, one of the first countries affected, I describe my first-hand account of my battle with this illness, how I acquired this illness in Singapore, and eventually quarantine in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7106031PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.10.007DOI Listing

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