Help with SARS in Canada and around the world: Phone numbers and websites

Health Canada

Information for the public: 1-800-454-8302

• Latest Health Canada Warning on SARS
• Health Canada Questions and Answers about SARS (update #6)
• Canadian Medical Association

Ontario

• Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
• SARS - Who should be in isolation at home?
  (From the Ontario Ministry of Health)
• Criteria for the identification of SARS
  From Toronto Public Health
• Those wanting further general information about SARS should call INFOline at 1-888-668-4636.
• Those with symptoms of SARS should call Telehealth Ontario at 1-866-797-0000.
• Toronto Public Health 416-338-7600
• Durham Public Health 905-723-8521
• Halton Call Telehealth Ontario 1-866-797-0000
• Peel Public Health 905-799-7700
• Simcoe Call Telehealth Ontario 1-866-797-0000
• York Public Health Call Telehealth Ontario 1-866-797-0000
• City of Toronto

• B.C. Center for Disease Control SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• Hotline number: 1-866-217-4700
• Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
  

• Awareness of symptoms, precautions, can help prevent SARS spread
• Edmonton: Capital Health Authority SARS information
• Edmonton hotline number: 780-408-5465

• Saskatchewan Health

• Manitoba SARS information
• 204-788-8200 or toll free at 1-888-315-9257
• Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg

New Brunswick

• New Brunswick SARS information

Nova Scatia

• Nova Scotia health information

World

• World Health Organization - SARS situation updates
• Center for Disease Control


• Department of Foreign Affairs - SARS Travel Advisory
• The New England Journal of Medicine - SARS


• Medline - U.S. National Library of Medicine
• Hong Kong Department of Health
• Singapore Ministry of Health - Press releases on SARS
• Center for Disease Control - Taiwan
• China Information Center - SARS


• Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs


• UK Public Health Laboratory Service