SARS: reception and interpretations in three Chinese cities

SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fa...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Series:Routledge contemporary China series 16
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantine in the absence of any scientific knowledge of the disease. Now three years on from the initital outbreak, SARS poses no major threat and has vanished from
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 180 Seiten) illustrations
ISBN:0203967690
1135985278
9780203967690
9781135985271
Access:Open Access

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