Diagram of the spread of SARS from the Hotel Metropole in Hong Kong

Individual patients are named with capital letters. HCW means health care worker.

A slide by CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding from a presentation she gave in Berkeley, CA. Tim Bishop of www.sarswatch.org writes, "the slide above, demonstrating the spread of SARS from Professor Liu's 24 hour stay at the Metropole Hotel, should give pause to anyone who thinks that this epidemic will be easy to control, or that people are exaggerating SARS' importance. One person, who for unknown reasons was a super spreader, indirectly infected hundreds of people in 6 countries, during a 24 hour stay in a hotel."

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