[HTML][HTML] Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

JSM Peiris, LLM Poon - Encyclopedia of virology, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new human disease caused by an animal
coronavirus that adapted to efficient human-to-human transmission. The disease first
emerged in November 2002 in Guangdong Province, China and spread globally within
months. The SARS coronavirus (SARS CoV) affects multiple organ systems with severe viral
pneumonia as its main clinical manifestation but with diarrhea, lymphopenia, and mild liver
dysfunction being common extra-pulmonary manifestations. Increasing age and the …

[PDF][PDF] Outbreak news: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

World Health Organization - Weekly Epidemiological Record …, 2003 - apps.who.int
The most common early symptoms in patients progressing to SARS have included fever
(100%), malaise (100%), chills (97%), headache (84%), myalgia (81%), dizziness (61%),
rigors (55%), cough (39%), sore throat (23%) and runny nose (23%). In many cases, patients
often first presented with severe headache, dizziness and myalgia. Temperature persisted
above baseline during disease progression. In some cases, there was rapid deterioration
with low oxygen saturation and acute respiratory distress requiring ventilatory support …

[PDF][PDF] Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): Report on Guangxi (China) visit

World Health Organization - Weekly Epidemiological Record …, 2003 - apps.who.int
Some concern had been expressed that this “poverty province”, with its weak health
infrastructure, would not be able to cope with a SARS outbreak but the province was found
to be well mobilized and there appeared to be no major epidemic. The team returned on 17
May to Beijing after a week-long visit to the province. Experts found an effective surveillance
system set up to detect cases. Diagnostic procedures, treatment, and infection control at all
hospitals visited were considered adequate. While no evidence of concealment of cases …

[PDF][PDF] Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): over 100 days into the outbreak

World Health Organization - Weekly Epidemiological Record …, 2003 - apps.who.int
Le jeudi 19 juin 2003 a marqué le 100e jour depuis la première alerte mondiale lancée par
TOMS, le 12 mars, concernant la menace représentée par le SRAS. A partir des 55 cas alors
reconnus, qui étaient concentrés de façon alarmante dans des hôpitaux de Hong Kong
Région administrative spéciale de la Chine, d'Hanoi et de Singapour, l'épidémie a explosé
en un mois, provoquant quelque 3000 cas et plus de 100 décès dans 20 pays situés sur
tous les continents.