What is CDC doing to combat this health threat?
CDC has activated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC); is distributing health alert notices to travelers who may have been exposed to cases of SARS; is assisting state and local health departments in investigating possible cases of SARS in the United States; is providing safe specimen-handling guidelines to laboratories; is analyzing laboratory specimens to identify a cause for SARS; and has deployed more than a dozen CDC medical officers, epidemiologists, infection control specialists, and pathologists to support the World Health Organization in the global investigation. As always, CDC is committed to communicating regularly and effectively with public health professionals, elected leaders, clinicians and the general public.
