SARS From East to West by Olsson Eva-Karin. Xue Lan

Author:Olsson, Eva-Karin.,Xue, Lan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780739170366
Publisher: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Notes

1. This chapter is to a large extent based on interviews with Peet Tüll, and the author would like to thank him for his extensive participation. The views presented are not necessarily the views of the WHO.

2. The regional office for Africa, the Americas, South East Asia, Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Pacific.

3. Partners include the Canadian Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), which is a search engine for real time early warning that continuously scans Internet communications for rumors and reports of suspicious diseases (WHO, 2003c), the U.S. Global Emerging Infection Surveillance and Response System (GEIS) and the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN). The latter is a global alert system for emergent influenza viruses with pandemic potential.

4. In retrospect, James Maguire (2003) of WHO’s Beijing Assessment Team and CDC Atlanta agrees that the epidemic in Guangdong in fact, at that time, was beginning to come under control.

5. The five-person team had been invited to China by the MOH and had arrived in Beijing on March 23. Upon arrival, the team members required permission to travel to Guangdong, but they had to wait eight days for access (Huang, 2003; WHO, 2004a; Crampton, 2003b).

6. According to discussions between Tüll (2004) and executives for companies such as, e.g., ABB, Ericsson, and SAS Radisson at the Swedish Embassy on June 6, 2003. See also Einhorn (2003) and Clifford & Engardio (2003).

7. Partly because Chinese legislation and articles were not being translated and thus were not well known to the international community (Tüll, 2004).

8. Health authority was divided amongst the State Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Labor and Social Security, State Family Planning Council and the Administration for Quality, Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. In addition the Ministry of Science and Technology is an important player in coordinating and supporting health research (WHO RC, 2003:6)

9. Before joining WHO’s Field office in Beijing on a consultant basis, Tiill had extensive experience of WHO consultancy assignments. His field experience included assessment work for WHO’s Polio Eradication program in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bulgaria and Bangladesh as well as small pox eradication for WHO in Bangladesh and assessing HIV programs in India and Estonia.

10. The proportion of probable and suspected cases with unknown exposure was relatively high and that needed to be addressed and followed up on.

11. In Hanoi WHO consultants reportedly tried to obtain and smuggle samples (since they were not allowed to export samples). There was also a dispute regarding the outbreak in Hong Kong. Apparently the leader of the Hong Kong team did not distribute data to CDC Atlanta, which upset a few people there (Tüll, 2004).

12. China CDC is a huge network of organizations. There are over four thousand CDCs in China with more than two hundred thousand staff (WHO RC, 2003:5). A ceremony marking the establishment of China CDC was held on January 23, 2002 (Koplan, 2002). However, in the April 2002 issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization it is mentioned that China CDC is being set up and that the China CDC building is being built (Walgate, 2002).

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