Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HT, UK.
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Seminarstraße 2, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
J Travel Med. 2020 Mar 13;27(2). doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa020.
Public health measures were decisive in controlling the SARS epidemic in 2003. Isolation is the separation of ill persons from non-infected persons. Quarantine is movement restriction, often with fever surveillance, of contacts when it is not evident whether they have been infected but are not yet symptomatic or have not been infected. Community containment includes measures that range from increasing social distancing to community-wide quarantine. Whether these measures will be sufficient to control 2019-nCoV depends on addressing some unanswered questions.
公共卫生措施在 2003 年控制 SARS 疫情方面起到了决定性作用。隔离是将病人与未感染者分开。检疫是在无法确定接触者是否感染但尚未出现症状或尚未感染时,对其采取的行动限制,通常包括体温监测。社区遏制措施包括从增加社会距离到全社区检疫等各种措施。这些措施是否足以控制 2019-nCoV,取决于一些悬而未决的问题能否得到解决。