• World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborative Multi-centre Research Project on SARS diagnosis
  
• Laboratory tests for SARS coronavirus infection at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
  
• Response of WHO headquarters to global SARS outbreak
  
• Response of WHO Western Pacific Regional Office to SARS outbreak
  
• The measures against SARS taken by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
  
• Activity of the Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, to SARS risk management
  
• The report by the JICA expert team from Japan for control of local transmission of SARS in Viet Nam
  
• Experience of epidemiological investigation of SARS outbreak in Hong Kong
  
• A survey on a SARS outbreak in China by WHO and the Ministry of Health, China
  
• A follow-up survey on contact cases of a SARS patient visiting from Taiwan-Osaka City
  
• Telephone consultation on SARS for general citizens in Japan by a NPO
  
• Isolation of influenza virus type AH3N2 from a returnee from Taiwan, July 2003-Kawasaki City
  
• Isolation of influenza virus type AH3 from a returnee from Canada, July 2003-Aichi
  
• Isolation of influenza virus type AH3 from a returnee from Shanghai, August 2003-Hokkaido
  
• Isolation of influenza virus type B from a returnee from Myanmar, September 2003-Okinawa
  
• An outbreak of adenovirus type 7 infection at a dormitory of the baseball club of a high school, July 2003-Okayama
  
• Isolation of adenoviruses, April 2002-July 2003-Osaka
  
• Isolation of coxsackievirus B1 from meningitis cases, June-August 2003-Fukui
  
• A measles epidemic due to genotype H1 virus, April-June 2003-Iwate
  
• Detection of coxsackievirus A9 from a fatal case of acute encephalopathy and exanthema cases, July-August 2003-Iwate
  
• An outbreak of group A rotavirus infection among adults in a welfare facility, May 2003-Iwate
  
• A serogroup A meningococcal meningitis case after visiting Beijing, March 2003-Tottori
  
• An outbreak of EHEC O157:H7 infection caused by catered lunch for senior citizens, May 2003-Nagano
  
• An outbreak of EHEC O157:H7 infection at Ramen-noodle chain stores, July 2003-Fukui
  
• A cluster of EHEC O157 infection caused by foodstuffs prepared at a meat shop, August 2003-Fukuoka City
  
• An outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis food poisoning in a prison, July 2003-Kumamoto City
  

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