What Was the SARS Outbreak?

The SARS incident refers to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (English: SARS ) which was first launched in 2002 in Shunde, Guangdong, China. [1] A global epidemic of infectious diseases that spread to Southeast Asia and the world until the mid-2003 epidemic was gradually eliminated.

SARS event

The SARS incident refers to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (English: SARS ) which was first launched in 2002 in Shunde, Guangdong, China. [1]
The term "SARS" is used in different countries and regions. Mainland China is commonly referred to as "atypical pneumonia" and referred to as "SARS" for short. It is customary in Hong Kong to translate "SARS" into "SARS" in Cantonese, or directly use "SARS" in English. Taiwan is also used to English, or "Chinese pneumonia SARS". The Singapore media used "SARS" for a while. On April 17, the Committee for the Unified Translation of Chinese Media used the name "SARS".
It is now believed that the disease first erupted in Shunde, Guangdong on November 16, 2002. [2]
At the earliest outbreak in December, the Guangzhou and Guangdong provincial governments had not released relevant information to avoid causing panic among the people. By the end of December, about this "
Beijing
After concealing the Beijing epidemic, the People's Republic of China faced accusations from the international community. to this end,
Sichuan: On March 29, a migrant worker who was sick in Guangdong and had undergone preliminary treatment returned to his hometown, Xuyong County, Luzhou, Sichuan Province, for treatment, and was confirmed as a suspected case; on April 5, Xuyong, Luzhou, Sichuan A working youth in the county returned to their hometown for treatment after being sick in Guangdong, and was clinically diagnosed with SARS. On April 19, two young people returning to Leshan from Guangdong appeared suspected symptoms. According to the expert analysis of the SARS prevention and treatment group in Sichuan, all SARS cases in Sichuan They are all input types, mostly imported from Guangdong, especially farmers working in Guangdong.
Hunan: On February 14, at 3 pm, the Zhuzhou City Center for Disease Control of Hunan Province received a report from the county's health and epidemic prevention station. The Second People's Hospital of Zhuzhou County treated a 27-year-old female patient Wang, whose symptoms were suspected to be SARS. On February 17, the Hunan Provincial Department of Health sent four experts to Zhuzhou County People's Hospital for consultation. At 5 pm on February 18th, the consultation results showed that the patient was mild atypical pneumonia. After treatment, on February 21, Wang's temperature was normal, and he was discharged after 7 days of withdrawal. On March 5, Wang returned to Guangzhou to work again. In April, Hunan reported another 6 cases of imported SARS patients in Guangdong. Among them, a 19-year-old female patient died of respiratory failure.
Shanxi: Yu Mou, a native of Taiyuan, Shanxi, engaged in jewelry business. He went to Guangdong to be infected on February 15 and was admitted to Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital on February 27. On February 28, Yu went to Beijing for treatment and was diagnosed with SARS. Yu had infected 19 people, 8 of whom were diagnosed in Beijing and 11 were in Shanxi Province. Yu's parents died in Beijing due to the infection. This is the first chain of the Shanxi epidemic. The second chain of the Shanxi epidemic was a patient from Qingxu County. He returned to the Beijing 301 Hospital for an oral ulcer and was diagnosed with SARS at the Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital.
Inner Mongolia: In April, Inner Mongolia became one of the hardest hit areas for SARS in the Mainland. On March 7, the first report of a suspected case was found in Inner Mongolia. Since then, cases have occurred in six coalition cities in the central, western and eastern regions. There are three groups of cases in Inner Mongolia: the first group is a civil aviation female flight attendant in Hohhot, who flew to Hong Kong on March 15 and affected 8 people; the second group is a middle school student in Hohhot, after visiting a sick and hospitalized relative The onset affected three people; the third group was doctor Li from the Linhe Railway Hospital of Bayannaoermeng. He returned to his hometown after completing an internship at Beijing You'an Hospital.
Ningxia: Zhao Yushan works in the county broadcasting bureau, about 40 years old. On March 27, 2003, Zhao Yushan attended the training of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of Beijing, and returned to Bayou County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Mengkou County, where he was infected with SARS by doctor Li of the Linhe City Railway Hospital of Pakistan. Zhao started having a fever after April 1st, and due to the worsening condition on April 12, Zhao was sent to the Affiliated Hospital of Ningxia Medical College for treatment. On the 22nd, Zhao died, thus becoming the first imported SARS patient in Ningxia. Later, Zhao Yushan's wife, brother-in-law, wife brother, brother, and others became ill.
Zhejiang: The three imported SARS cases in Hangzhou were three siblings. On April 12, their family of six siblings gathered in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou to sweep the graves in Wuhan. The elder sister from Beijing had fever, cough and other symptoms at that time, and she was diagnosed with SARS on April 19 after returning to Beijing.
Jilin: In April 2003, Nie, a resident of Qitamu Town, Jiutai City, Changchun City, went to a Beijing hospital to care for his daughter. At that time, the hospital had begun treating SARS patients. Shortly after Nie returned to Changchun, he began to develop SARS symptoms. He was admitted to the Department of Respiratory Diseases of the First Hospital of Jilin University and was diagnosed as an SARS case by experts. Subsequently, Nie's sister, husband, nephew, two patients, and six medical staff were diagnosed with SARS.
Hebei: On April 9, Cao went to Beijing to attend the funeral of his brother, Cao Xinghua, a professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics. After returning to Baoding, he had a fever. Cao's sister and son were infected. After one of his friends was infected, his friend infected his niece again. Within two days, six suspected SARS patients appeared in Baoding. According to the official epidemic report, the first case in Shijiazhuang was from Xinhe County, Xingtai City. He worked in Beijing after the Spring Festival and was treated in a local hospital after a fever in Beijing on April 5. He stayed in the fifth hospital in Shijiazhuang on the evening of April 11. At 5 pm on April 25, he was diagnosed with SARS. According to the headquarters of the SARS Office in Zhangjiakou City, a local man in his 50s was treated for diabetes in a hospital in Beijing. He was infected with SARS while in hospital, and his accompanying wife and sister-in-law were infected and passed on to his daughter, son-in-law and in-laws. Three students from Zhangjiakou Hebei Construction School went to Beijing. They returned with fever and were diagnosed. The first SARS patient diagnosed in Handan was a Gansu worker working at a construction site at Beijing Institute of Technology; the first SARS case in Qinhuangdao was a migrant worker returning to Funing County, Qinhuangdao from Beijing; the first case in Chengde was also taken during a business trip in Beijing Infectious.
Tianjin: On April 14, Tianjin discovered the first case of SARS-Wang, a 46-year-old Breguet who returned to Tianjin from 302 Hospital. On April 15, a cadre from a civil affairs bureau in Hebei, Meng, came to the Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Armed Police Academy to prepare for a bypass surgery. The next day, Meng developed symptoms such as high fever and dry cough, and was transferred to the Tianjin SARS Hospital, Tianjin Pulmonary Hospital, and then to the Tianjin Infectious Disease Hospital, where she died. It was verified that Meng had treated SARS patients during his stay in the Beijing Civil Aviation General Hospital. In the early morning of May 5, the chief physician of the Department of Respiratory Diseases of Tianjin Pulmonary Hospital died from his job and became the first medical staff in Tianjin to fall to the front line of treating SARS patients. In the early morning of May 11, Dr. Liu Weiyu, one of Meng's attending doctors and director of the First Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Armed Police Academy, died at the age of 51.
Gansu: Ma Bin, 25, is a native of Majiapo Village, Xiangquan Town, Dingxi County, Gansu Province. He has long been engaged in catering in Beijing and has a history of contact with SARS patients in Beijing. On April 14, Ma Bin felt that his body was sore and weak, and he was diagnosed with a cold at the Xiaozhuang Hospital in Chaoyang District, Beijing. On April 17, Ma returned home from Beijing by train T151. After getting out of the car, go directly to the Department of Infectious Diseases of Dingxi County Hospital for a fever clinic, and then began to have a high fever, a dry cough, a shadow in the lungs, and an expert diagnosis of SARS. Ma Sicheng, 60, who had accompanied SARS patients while in Beijing, also flew from Beijing to Lanzhou on the 18th. Return to Dingxi by car from Lanzhou Airport and rest at the brother-in-law's house. On the 19th, he developed a high fever and was diagnosed with SARS in the Department of Infectious Diseases of Dingxi County Hospital.
Shaanxi: The first imported SARS case found in Shaanxi was a female, 39 years old, from Xi'an. She accompanied other patients to Beijing for treatment in April. Fever began on April 10 and symptoms appeared. He returned to Xi'an on April 16 and was hospitalized. On April 20, SARS was diagnosed.
Jiangsu: On April 30, the first case of SARS was found in Jiangsu Province. The patient is a 35-year-old from Haimen, Nantong. He lives in Beijing for a long time. On April 19, the patient developed SARS symptoms in his Beijing residence. On April 25, the patient was returned to Nantong by her husband in a private car, went directly to the hospital for a hot clinic, and was then transferred to the isolation ward of a designated SARS hospital for treatment, which was confirmed as a clinically diagnosed SARS case.
Chongqing: On April 29, Zhang, a former waiter at a hotel in Dongcheng District, Beijing, was checked out by the township health center in Zitong Township, Nanchuan City, Chongqing, and was diagnosed as the first SARS patient in Chongqing.
Liaoning: On April 19, Wang, Suizhong County, Huludao City, arrived at the central hospital of Huludao. At 7 o'clock that night, an expert group from the Liaoning Provincial Department of Health arrived and clearly diagnosed Wang as the first imported SARS patient in Liaoning Province.
Henan: On April 16, Wu, a new wild farmer who once worked in Beijing, was admitted to Nanyang Central Hospital because of SARS. On April 22, three new cases of SARS were confirmed in Henan. Before the onset of these three newly diagnosed SARS patients, they had worked in a medical institution in Beijing to work, escort or visit patients.
Jiangxi: At 21:00 on May 3, the first imported SARS case was found in Jiangxi Province. Upon investigation, the patient was a migrant worker from Ji'an County in Beijing and returned to Ji'an by train on the evening of April 26. After receiving the information from Beijing that the patient's lover had been diagnosed with SARS in Beijing, Ji'an health and epidemic prevention personnel were dispatched to locate the patient in a hotel.
Fujian: Two suspected atypical pneumonia cases were found in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, and both returned from Hong Kong training in the same unit in the same batch. They lived with Amoy Gardens in Hong Kong with 64 others and returned to Xiamen on March 30.
Shanghai: On March 27, a female businessman returned to Shanghai from Hong Kong to negotiate business. She had symptoms on the way and was diagnosed on April 2. On April 7, the 68-year-old father of the patient developed fever and other symptoms. On April 17, he was diagnosed as the second patient with atypical pneumonia in Shanghai.
Anhui: On April 21, Fuyang migrant girl stepped back from Shenzhen by train 1540 (Shenzhen to Zhengzhou). On April 22, Bumou arrived in Fuyang and was sent to the First Hospital of Fuyang City by his family for a diagnosis of SARS.
Shandong: On April 21, Jinan was diagnosed with the first SARS patient in Shandong Province. The patient named Ren was from Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, and was a deputy department-level corporate cadre. He had just been transferred from Shanxi Petroleum Company to Shandong Petroleum Company as a Deputy General Manager. On April 3, the patient developed a fever and went to the Taiyuan People's Hospital for treatment. On April 7, the patient came to Jinan due to work transfer, and was then treated in many local hospitals. The clinical diagnosis was SARS.
  • On May 31, 2003, WHO removed Singapore from the affected area.
  • On June 23, 2003, WHO removed Hong Kong, China from the epidemic area.
  • On June 24, 2003, WHO removed mainland China from the epidemic area.
  • On July 2, 2003, WHO removed Canada from the affected area.
  • On July 5, 2003, WHO removed Taiwan from the epidemic area.
  • On July 13, 2003, there were no more new and suspected cases worldwide, and the epidemic was basically over. [9]
    • Phoenix TV: Ten Years of SARS
    • The novel Ru Ru @ sars.come by Hu Fayun
    • The documentary "Crossing Peace" was recorded by Taiwan Public TV during the SARS epidemic in Taiwan. The peace hospital with the most concentrated epidemic was the background, the voices of related people, related punishments, and the legal trial process.
    • "Panic, Spreading in the Political Plague" Criticizes the Taipei City Government's approach.
    • Movie, novel "The Box of Heaven"
    • TV series "Asian Heroes"
    • Hong Kong film "Life of SARS"
    • Hong Kong Radio's series of "Love in the Plague" and "Taipei Nomad".
    • Singapore TV drama "Inflammable Love"
    • Hong Kong TVB "Ten Years of SARS"
    • The film "Proliferation across the country"
    • Novel "Ba Guo Hou"
    • Biography "Seeing" Chai Jingzuo

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