How SARS Spreads

 

Close Contact with infected person through droplets
Close Contact with infected
person through droplets		 Not Airborne
Not Airborne		 No evidence of Air Conditioning System Transmission
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.