Essay On Sars

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Introduction Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a severe form of pneumonia – an inflammation of the lungs due to an infection by Sars coronavirus, a strain first identified in 2003. The name Sars was coined by the World Health Organisation on March 15, 2003. Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in southern China caused an eventual 8,096 cases. Bats and civet cats were likely the original host of the virus and both were harvested for their meat and served as delicacies in China. People get infected when they come into close contact with the body fluid of an infected person. Global Spread SARS was carried out of the Guangdong Province on February 21, 2003, when an infected medical doctor spent a single night on …show more content…

(Incident) How Sars affected Singapore The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Singapore began in February 2003 when a young woman who had been infected while holidaying abroad returned to Singapore. She set off a series of transmission events here that spread the SARS virus to 238 people, 33 of whom died. Besides Singapore, more than 20 other countries also reported SARS cases during this global epidemic. After the implementation of various stringent measures, including home quarantine, blanket screening of incoming travellers and school closures, the outbreak in Singapore was contained in May 2003. Description SARS first reached Singapore in late February 2003 with the return of three Singaporean women from Hong Kong, where they had stayed at Metropole Hotel and caught the virus from an infected hotel guest (a doctor from Guangzhou, China). They were hospitalised for pneumonia between 1 March and 3 March. Two of them recovered without infecting anyone. However one of them, Esther Mok, infected 22 close contacts and sparked the outbreak in

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