Close Contact with infected
person through droplets
Not Airborne
No evidence of Air Conditioning
System Transmission
SARS is spread through close
contact with an infected person. It is
transmitted through droplets spread when
an infected person coughs or sneezes, and
the droplets are spread to a nearby
contact.
Close contact means having cared for,
lived with, or had direct contact with
respiratory secretions (coughing and
sneezing) or body fluids (mucus, saliva)
of a person with SARS.
There is no evidence at present that
SARS can be spread through the
central air-conditioning system. The
SARS virus also does not seem to be
airborne (float in the air for long
periods), otherwise many people would have
caught it by now.
