Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Atypical Pneumonia, Coronavirus, Chief Public Health Officer Of Canada
20 Feb 2018
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Lecture 12 case study: sars & mandatory quarantine: quarantine is often used as an example of the dilemma for protecting individual rights vs. collective rights. When should quarantine be used: post-sars public health in canada. Objectives: understand the ethical, practical, legal, and moral issues surrounding quarantine, be able to describe how canada responded to the sars outbreak, what we learned, and apply principles learned in the last lecture to the issue of quarantine. The issue: what is sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome): serious form of pneumonia caused by a coronavirus. Symptoms: fever, cough, difficulty breathing: vague; presents very similar to other illnesses/flu. Treatment: no vaccine or no cure, just supportive treatments like oxygen and fluids that help you recover more quickly. The issue: 2003 global outbreak: nov 16, 2002: index patient became ill in guangdong province of china. Index patient = the first person that has identified with the cause of an outbreak.
