Report details lessons from SARS outbreak

SARS outbreak and lessons learned.

Coronavirus outbreak in cheetahs: Lessons for SARS

In November 2002, a flu-like outbreak caused by a coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV occurred in Guangdong Province in China. In the space of 9 months the disease traveled to 29 countries, infected 8098 people and caused 774 deaths [1]. The SARS epidemic spread with alarming speed among health care workers attending SARS patients (e.g., 112 health care workers at Prince of Wales hospital in Hong...

Lessons from SARS.

I t is the nature of epidemics to be unpredictable. People want answers to some important questions: How serious is severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)? Will SARS be contained in Toronto, or Singapore, or China? How far will it spread and how rapidly? What can the global community do to prevent and control future epidemics? Much has been learned from previous infectious disease epidemics a...

Learning from the SARS outbreak

Many new human diseases of animal origin are expected to appear over the coming decades as a result of environmental disruption, global warming and behavioral change, scientists at a meeting at the Royal Society in London warned last month as a growing number of scientists and other bodies contemplate future threats from infections presently occurring in animals that may spread to humans. The r...

Risk and Outbreak Communication: Lessons from Taiwan's Experiences in the Post-SARS Era

In addition to the impact of a disease itself, public reaction could be considered another outbreak to be controlled during an epidemic. Taiwan's experience with SARS in 2003 highlighted the critical role played by the media during crisis communication. After the SARS outbreak, Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) followed the WHO outbreak communication guidelines on trust, early a...