Table 2.

Summarized data from chart records of patients who visited the emergency department since the beginning of March 2003.

Patients	Age	Sex	Time of onset of symptoms	Time of departure from the endemic area and time of arrival at Taiwan	Date of visit to the emergency room	Lab data of white blood cell count	Chest X-ray findings	Final diagnosis
A	50	F	Cough, fever (38 °C), sorethroat since March 17th	From Guangzhou to Hong Kong to Taiwan on March 18th	March 19th	WBC: 5700/cm3 Segment: 71.8% Lymphocyte: 18.2%	Consolidation in right lower lobe and left lower lobe of lungs	Atypical pneumonia
B	78	M	Cough, dyspnea, fever (38 °C) since March 17th	From Mainland China to Hong Kong to Taiwan on April 1st	April 3rd	WBC: 21100/cm3 Segment: 82% Lymphocyte: 9%	Consolidation in right middle lobe of lung	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with secondary infection
C	36	F	Dyspnea, myalgia, sorethroat, fever (38.8 °C) since March 30th	From Australia to Hong Kong to Taiwan on March 31st	April 2nd	WBC: 6100/cm3 Segment: 77.7% Lymphocyte: 14.1%	No definite active lung lesion	Atypical pneumonia
D	3	M	Cough, rhinorrhea, vomiting, anorexia, fever (39 °C) since April 6th morning	From Guangzhou to Hong Kong to Taiwan on April 6th	April 6th	WBC: 17100/cm3 Segment: 91.7% Lymphocyte: 5.2%	Mild infiltration over bilateral lower lung fields and perihilar region	Broncho-pneumonia
E	26	F	Fever (39.4 °C) since March 21st morning	From Vietnam to Taiwan on March 21st	April 22nd	WBC: 5700/cm3 Segment: 60.4% Lymphocyte: 24.7%	No definite active lung lesion	Atypical pneumonia
F	31	F	Cough with sputum, fever (38 °C) since April 11th	April 19th from Vietnam to Taiwan	April 21st	WBC: 4000/cm3 Segment: 70.7% Lymphocyte: 29.3%	No definite active pulmonary lesion	Atypical pneumonia

Patients admitted that they were symptomatic before their departure from epidemic areas of SARS.