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What year is the SARS virus? How many people died of SARS virus?
Introduction: For the occurrence of infectious diseases, we can only stick to our responsibilities to prevent the spread of the virus, and we can't rely on the emergence of vaccines, because the research and development of infectious disease vaccines itself takes a long time. In modern times, there were two important epidemics in history, one was sars virus, and the other was COVID-19 and COVID-19. Needless to say, the sars virus is unknown to many people. So what year was the sars virus? How many people died of SARS virus? Come and get to know me.

What year is sars virus?

SARS refers to severe acute respiratory syndrome, which occurred in Guangdong, China in 2002 and spread to Southeast Asia and even the whole world. It was not until mid-2003 that the epidemic was gradually eliminated. As of August 16, 2003, a total of 5,327 clinically diagnosed cases of atypical pneumonia were reported in China, 4,959 cases were cured and discharged from hospital, and 349 cases died (in addition, 19 cases died of other diseases, not counting the deaths of SARS cases).

How many people died of SARS virus?

The number of deaths due to sars virus in the world is 9 19, and the fatality rate is nearly 1 1%.

There were 5,327 cases and 349 deaths in Chinese mainland. China Mainland and Hongkong 1755 cases, with 300 deaths; 665 cases in Taiwan Province Province, China, with death 180; Canada has 25 1 case and 4 1 case of death; 238 cases in Singapore, with 33 deaths; There were 63 cases and 5 deaths in Vietnam.

The starting and ending time of sars virus

The earliest SARS case was found in 2002:165438+1early October.

At the beginning of June, 2002, the earliest SARS was found in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China. Because of the symptoms of pneumonia, the patient was classified as atypical pneumonia at that time, and the China media generally called it "SARS". Since then, the disease has spread rapidly to Hong Kong through tourism, commerce and immigration, and from Hong Kong to Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan Province Province and Toronto.

The worst time of SARS: In May 2003, the epidemic situation in Beijing and Hong Kong was the worst. In the summer of 2003, the number of infected people decreased for a few days, and the disease was completely controlled.

On May 3, 2003, Kloc-0, WHO removed Singapore from the epidemic area.

On June 23rd, 2003, WHO removed China and Hongkong from the epidemic area.

On June 24th, 2003, WHO removed China from the epidemic area.

On July 2, 2003, WHO removed Canada from the epidemic area.

On July 5th, 2003, WHO removed Taiwan Province Province of China from the epidemic area.

On July 3, 2003, there were no new cases and suspected cases in the world, and the epidemic basically ended.

From June, 5438 to February, 2003, Southern Metropolis Daily reported that SARS reappeared in Guangzhou, but it was not officially confirmed.

Post-SARS: In June 2003+10, sporadic cases appeared again in Guangzhou, and in March 2004, suspected SARS cases were found again in Beijing, but none of them turned into an epidemic again.

From June 5th to February 5th, 2003, Zhan from the Institute of Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan Province Province was infected with SARS in the laboratory due to operational problems. No infection occurred, and it was cured after treatment.

End time of SARS: On June 24th, 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the lifting of the travel ban in Beijing, which marked Chinese mainland's victory over SARS.