SARS ends
4After 20 days with no new cases Taiwan was the last territory to be declared free of SARS by the World Health Organization and this meant that the outbreak was considered “contained”.
First detected in Vietnam in February 2003 the disease quickly spread to 30 countries prompting the implementation of new ideas like airport health screenings, self-quarantines, lockdowns and mask mandates...
Those are now very familiar to us and in another familiar twist the disease had actually emerged in China in November 2002 but authorities there failed to notify the WHO as quickly as they could have.
Between November 2002 when the first cases occurred in China and July, 2003
Around 8,100 people were confirmed to have contracted the disease in 30 countries.
And sadly 774 of those people died...
Despite fears that it might return during the Northern hemisphere’s winter, there was only a minor outbreak in January 2004 along with some teensy lab accidents
and so the disease basically disappeared making July 5th, 2003 effectively the end of the SARS Cov-1 pandemic.
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