Alyssa Gregory (Ramirez)

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Back in Singapore, health officials and government authorities cooperated to stanch further transmission. They enacted firm measures that reached far beyond the hospitals—such as enforced quarantine of possible cases, jail time and fines for quarantine breakers, closure of a large public market, school closures, daily temperature checks for cab drivers—and the outbreak was brought to an end. Singapore is an atypical city, firmly governed and orderly (that’s putting it politely), therefore especially capable of dealing with an atypical pneumonia, even one so menacing as this. On May 20, 2003, ...more
Alyssa Gregory (Ramirez)
Moving to Singapore
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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