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The 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) apparently started in Foshan in Guangdong, China, with the first case being seen on 16 November 2002.1 From there it spread through China and worldwide as far as Canada. The outbreak officially ended on 5 July 2003 when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared SARS contained ...
"Not a single case of the severe acute respiratory syndrome has been reported this year [2005] or in late 2004. It is the first winter without a case since the initial outbreak in late 2002. In addition, the epidemic strain of SARS that caused at least 774 deaths worldwide by June 2003 has not been seen outside of a laboratory since then."
Mar 16, 2013 · March 15: The term Sars is coined. Singapore has 16 cases. The Ministry of Health (MOH) forms the Sars task force. ... a strain first identified in 2003. The name Sars was coined by the World ...
Apr 22, 2004 · The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Singapore ended in late May 2003. 1 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removed its travel alerts for Toronto, Hong ...
- Poh Lian Lim, Asok Kurup, Gowri Gopalakrishna, Kwai Peng Chan, Christopher W. Wong, Lee Ching Ng, Su...
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome --- Singapore, 2003 The Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH), with assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO), has been investigating an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). This is a novel condition caused by the SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and is characterized by both an ...
On 6 March 2003, the Singapore Ministry of Health was notified of a cluster of atypical pneumonia in three patients with a history of travel to Hong Kong (Hsu et al., 2003). These three female travelers had stayed at the Metropole Hotel on the same floor ...
Current status of the SARS outbreak. At this moment, public health authorities, physicians and scientists around the world are struggling to cope with a severe and rapidly spreading new disease in humans, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. This appears to be the first severe and easily transmissible new disease to emerge in the 21st ...
