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SARS in China. April to ... finance. Non-SARS affected areas in China also recorded
encouraging escalation in tourist arrivals. Countries ...
... In late May 2003, studies from samples of wild animals sold as food in the local
market in Guangdong, China found that the SARS coronavirus could be isolated ...
... Nobody knows for sure how SARS developed but the fact that it's a respiratory disease
is why I think China's pollution played a role in helping this disease ...
... Page 14 7. References Page 15 Introduction to SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) first surfaced in Guangzhou, China, in November of 2002 and quickly ...
... stability. China was blamed for the spread of SARS due to the failure of
reporting the existence of it till it was too late. Tourism ...
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April to July of 2003
Public Relation Program
Situation Review
In March 2003, China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region reported the worst case of environmental/social health disaster in the wake of the region's recent history. SARS or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome caused a total of six deaths with 173 people reportedly infected with the virus during that month. The Chinese has a saying, "Misfortune never travels alone"; soon neighbors Vietnam reported 62 cases including two deaths, and Singapore reporting 34 cases of illness with similar symptoms.
Later reports released gave reason of how the virus was spread to Beijing, China's capital city, by stating that on the 23rd of March 2003, Hong Kong (also known as SAR in short; the irony if you will) had to move some patients to Beijing's YouAn hospital for treatment of this virus. Unfortunately, during the treatment doctors and nurses attending to this batch of patients from the SAR were also reported to be suffering from the same symptoms as those of the patients resulting in the death of one nurse.
However, to make matters worst, it was later reported that in Guangdong Province, which neighbors Hong Kong some 300 people were warded in hospitals since November of 2002 with symptoms similar to SARS. During the same period, 5 people were also reported to have died from an unidentified disease in the Guangdong Province; suspiciously giving hint that the deaths were related to SARS. Needless to say, the public (both within China and her neighbors) was outraged by this piece of "missing" information.
According to China's Health Minister Zhang Wenkang, by the end of March 2003, a total of 1,190 SARS cases had been reported in China, with 1,153 cases alone in Guangdong Province. The other regions that reported SARS cases included: Beijing with 12 cases, Guangxi with 11 cases, Hunan with 7 cases, Shanxi with 4 cases, and Sichuan...
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