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Australia was indeed the “lucky country” in the recent worldwide SARS epidemic

Marianne E Jauncey, Paul K Armstrong, Emily L Morgan and Jeremy M McAnulty
Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06249.x
Published online: 16 August 2004

Marianne E Jauncey,* Paul K Armstrong,† Emily L Morgan,‡ Jeremy M McAnulty§


  • 1 Communicable Diseases Branch; NSW Health, North Sydney, NSW.
  • 2 Ballina West Medical Centre, Ballina, NSW.



Acknowledgements: 

We thank the Australian Department of Health and Ageing for their role in the notification process of this case, and the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, for SARS coronavirus antibody testing.

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