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CDC Issues New SARS Guidelines

By Richard Knox
Published October 22, 2003 at 11:00 PM CDT

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises hospitals and doctors' offices to have patients wear a mask if they arrive with a cough and a fever. The precaution is designed to help prevent health workers from getting sick and help prevent patients in hospitals from getting SARS. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

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