Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• Up-To-Date Details as of March 26

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
- The Global Death toll from the mysterious
illness is increasing daily. - SARS is believed
to have originated in southern China
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• 487 confirmed cases of infection
• 22 confirmed deaths

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• Countries with reported cases
• Canada 11 with 3 deaths
• France 1
• Germany 4
• Italy 2
• Ireland 1
• Singapore 69

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• Countries with reported cases
• Switzerland 2
• Taiwan 6
• Thailand 5
• United Kingdom 3
• United States 39

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• Vietnam reported 58 cases with 4 deaths
• China reported 350 cases with 5 deaths
• Hong Kong reported 286 cases with 10 deaths

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• The World Health Organization issued a global
  alert
• Asias tourist industry has suffered
• Sporting events have been canceled

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• The illness is taking an effect on Hong Kongs
  economy
• Tourism and hospitality trade is down 20
• The secrecy of Chinas government is questioned

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• Many people have been quarantined due to contact
  with the illness
• In Singapore 704 have been quarantined
• if the quarantine is broken they will be fined
  5,000 (in Singapore dollars)

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• All schools including colleges have been closed
  in China until April 6th
• 4 schools in Hong Kong have been closed

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• What is SARS?
• It is a virus
• What are the symptoms?
• High fever, head ache, soar throat cough
• How is it transmitted?
• spreads person to person is airborne

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• What is the source of SARS?
• Nothing is confirmed
• The initial source of the illness was in China
• An infected man carried the disease to Hong
  Kongs Metropolis Hotel
• Others contracted the illness the spread it as
  they traveled

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• China
• Health statistics are politically sensitive in
  China
• Reporting on disease outbreaks is frequently
  suppressed
• Reports have been made that last year Chinas
  government ordered newspapers not to print
  information about the outbreak

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• Since the outbreak there has been a call for
  international health reform and for coordinated
  international response to outbreaks

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• Little is known about the outbreak.
• The World Health Organization claims that the
  condition could have existed, unnoticed, for many
  years.

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• Sources
• The Japan Times
• http//www.japantimes.co.jp/cgibin/getarticle.p15
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• BBC news
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• CNN.COM
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