SARS in health care workers
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* Gordon Farrow

I wondered if Monica Avendano and associates1 were planning a follow-up report on the 14 health care workers who were treated for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) at the West Park Healthcare Centre. At the time of publication of that report, all of the patients had recovered sufficiently to go home, but only one had returned to work.

I am interested and concerned as to how these patients have progressed in the past few months.

**Gordon Farrow** Tax Accountant Scarborough, Ont.

## Reference

1.  1. Avendano M, Derkach P, Swan S. Clinical course and management of SARS in health care workers in Toronto: a case series. CMAJ 2003; 168 (13):1649-60.
    
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