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SARS VIRUS a Threat to World Health
Geneva, Switzerland, March 15, 2003
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an emergency travel advisory following the outbreak of SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROM (SARS), an atypical pneumonia originating in southern China.
SARS was first identified by DR. Carlo Urbani, a WHO specialist based in Hanoi, Vietnam. An epidemiologist, Urbani was asked to examine a visiting Chinese-American businessman who showed pneumonis-like symptoms but also had a high fever and shortness of breath. Not only did the patient die, he also infected 33 hopital staff including Urbani himself, who died a month later.
In the week prior to today’s announcment,WHO had received reports of 150 cases of SARS from Canada, China, Hongkong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Acknowledging that the virus is now a worldwide health threat. Dr. Gro Brundtland, the Director General of WHO, has told the press: “The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick, and stop its spread.”
SARS spread over 8000 people worldwide and killed almost 800.
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