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Sars In China

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......


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