If you've recently traveled (click here for list of countries), or if you've had close contact with someone who has SARS, and if you develop symptoms within 10 days, you should call ahead to your physician or your local public health unit or health department. Your local public health unit or health department can provide information about the closest Emergency Department or established SARS Centre that you should visit for medical assessment.

The symptoms for SARS are the following:

• Severe headache
• Muscle aches and pains
• Severe fatigue
• Diarrhea
• Dry cough
• Shortness of breath

Here is how health care professionals currently diagnose SARS. If you think you may have SARS please consult a qualified medical professional:

Symptom:	Suspect	Probable
Temperature >38degrees C	Yes	Yes
Respiratory Symptoms (one or more of the following: Cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, low oxygen levels in the blood)	Yes	Yes
1 Chest X-Ray evidence of pneumonia OR 2 Respiratory Distress Syndrome OR 3 Autopsy findings or 1 or 2.	No	Yes
Travel (including transit in an airport) within 10 days of onset of symptoms to an area with current or previously documented or suspected community transmission of SARS AND/OR	Yes	Yes
Close contact within 10 days of onset of symptoms with a person known or suspected to have SARS	Yes	Yes
Infectious to others	Yes	Yes
Isolation	Yes	Yes
Quarantine for contacts	Yes	Yes

Source: CDC.