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SARS: Key Events
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was first discovered in Asia in February 2003. The outbreak lasted approximately six months as the disease spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia before it was stopped in July 2003. See below a timeline of CDC’s key activities conducted during the outbreak and beyond.
2002
November 16: The first case of atypical pneumonia is reported in the Guangdong province in southern China.
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2003
March 12: The World Health Organization (WHO) issues a global alert for a severe form of pneumonia of unknown origin in persons from China, Vietnam, and Hong Kong.
March 14: CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
March 15: CDC issues first health alert and hosts media telebriefing about an atypical pneumonia that has been named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). CDC issues interim guidelines for state and local health departments on SARS.
CDC issues a “Health Alert Notice” for travelers to the United States from Hong Kong, Guangdong Province (China).
March 20: CDC issues infection control precautions for aerosol-generating procedures on patients who are suspected of having SARS.
March 22: CDC issues interim laboratory biosafety guidelines for handling and processing specimens associated with SARS.
March 24: CDC laboratory analysis suggests a new coronavirus may be the cause of SARS. In the United States, 39 suspect cases (to date) had been identified. Of those cases, 32 of 39 had traveled to countries were SARS was reported.
March 27: CDC issues interim domestic guidelines for management of exposures to SARS for healthcare and other institutional settings.
March 28: The SARs outbreak is more widespread. CDC begins utilizing pandemic planning for SARS.
March 29: CDC extended its travel advisory for SARS to include all of mainland China and added Singapore. CDC quarantine staff began meeting planes, cargo ships and cruise ships coming either directly or indirectly to the United States from China, Singapore and Vietnam and also begins distributing health alert cards to travelers.
April 4: The number of suspected U.S. SARS cases was 115; reported from 29 states. There were no deaths among these suspect cases of SARS in the United States.
April 5: CDC establishes community outreach team to address stigmatization associated with SARS.
April 10: CDC issued specific guidance for students exposed to SARS.
April 14: CDC publishes a sequence of the virus believed to be responsible for the global epidemic of SARS. Identifying the genetic sequence of a new virus is important to treatment and prevention efforts. The results came just 12 days after a team of scientists and technicians began working around the clock to grow cells taken from the throat culture of a SARS patient.
April 22: CDC issues a health alert for travelers to Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
May 6: In the United States, no new probable cases were reported in the last 24 hours, and there was no evidence of ongoing transmission beyond the initial case reports in travelers for more than 20 days. The containment in the United States has been successful.
May 20: CDC lifted the travel alert on Toronto because more than 30 days (or three SARS incubation periods) had elapsed since the date of onset of symptoms for the last reported case.
May 23: CDC reinstated travel alert for Toronto because on May 22, Canadian health officials reported a cluster of five new probable SARS cases.
June 4: CDC removed the travel alert for Singapore and downgraded the traveler notification for Hong Kong from a travel advisory to a travel alert.
July 3: CDC removed the travel alert for mainland China.
July 5: WHO announced that the global SARS outbreak was contained.
July 10: CDC removed the travel alert for Hong Kong and Toronto.
July 15: CDC removed the travel alert for Taiwan.
July 17: CDC updated the SARS case definition which reduced the number of U.S. cases by half. The change results from excluding cases in which blood specimens that were collected more than 21 days after the onset of illness test negative.
December 31: Globally, WHO received reports of SARS from 29 countries and regions; 8,096 persons with probable SARS resulting in 774 deaths. In the United States, eight SARS infections were documented by laboratory testing and an additional 19 probable SARS infections were reported.
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2004
January 13: CDC issues “Notice of Embargo of Civets.” A SARS-like virus had been isolated from civets (captured in areas of China where the SARS outbreak originated). CDC banned the importation of civets. The civet is a mammal with a catlike body, long legs, a long tail, and a masked face resembling a raccoon or weasel. The ban is currently still in effect.
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2012
October 5: The National Select Agent Registry Program declared SARS-coronavirus a select agent. A select agent is a bacterium, virus or toxin that has the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety.
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was first discovered in Asia in February 2003. The outbreak lasted approximately six months as the disease spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia before it was stopped in July 2003. See below a timeline of CDC’s key activities conducted during the outbreak and beyond.
2002
November 16: The first case of atypical pneumonia is reported in the Guangdong province in southern China.
Top of Page
2003
March 12: The World Health Organization (WHO) issues a global alert for a severe form of pneumonia of unknown origin in persons from China, Vietnam, and Hong Kong.
March 14: CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
March 15: CDC issues first health alert and hosts media telebriefing about an atypical pneumonia that has been named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). CDC issues interim guidelines for state and local health departments on SARS.
CDC issues a “Health Alert Notice” for travelers to the United States from Hong Kong, Guangdong Province (China).
March 20: CDC issues infection control precautions for aerosol-generating procedures on patients who are suspected of having SARS.
March 22: CDC issues interim laboratory biosafety guidelines for handling and processing specimens associated with SARS.
March 24: CDC laboratory analysis suggests a new coronavirus may be the cause of SARS. In the United States, 39 suspect cases (to date) had been identified. Of those cases, 32 of 39 had traveled to countries were SARS was reported.
March 27: CDC issues interim domestic guidelines for management of exposures to SARS for healthcare and other institutional settings.
March 28: The SARs outbreak is more widespread. CDC begins utilizing pandemic planning for SARS.
March 29: CDC extended its travel advisory for SARS to include all of mainland China and added Singapore. CDC quarantine staff began meeting planes, cargo ships and cruise ships coming either directly or indirectly to the United States from China, Singapore and Vietnam and also begins distributing health alert cards to travelers.
April 4: The number of suspected U.S. SARS cases was 115; reported from 29 states. There were no deaths among these suspect cases of SARS in the United States.
April 5: CDC establishes community outreach team to address stigmatization associated with SARS.
April 10: CDC issued specific guidance for students exposed to SARS.
April 14: CDC publishes a sequence of the virus believed to be responsible for the global epidemic of SARS. Identifying the genetic sequence of a new virus is important to treatment and prevention efforts. The results came just 12 days after a team of scientists and technicians began working around the clock to grow cells taken from the throat culture of a SARS patient.
April 22: CDC issues a health alert for travelers to Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
May 6: In the United States, no new probable cases were reported in the last 24 hours, and there was no evidence of ongoing transmission beyond the initial case reports in travelers for more than 20 days. The containment in the United States has been successful.
May 20: CDC lifted the travel alert on Toronto because more than 30 days (or three SARS incubation periods) had elapsed since the date of onset of symptoms for the last reported case.
May 23: CDC reinstated travel alert for Toronto because on May 22, Canadian health officials reported a cluster of five new probable SARS cases.
June 4: CDC removed the travel alert for Singapore and downgraded the traveler notification for Hong Kong from a travel advisory to a travel alert.
July 3: CDC removed the travel alert for mainland China.
July 5: WHO announced that the global SARS outbreak was contained.
July 10: CDC removed the travel alert for Hong Kong and Toronto.
July 15: CDC removed the travel alert for Taiwan.
July 17: CDC updated the SARS case definition which reduced the number of U.S. cases by half. The change results from excluding cases in which blood specimens that were collected more than 21 days after the onset of illness test negative.
December 31: Globally, WHO received reports of SARS from 29 countries and regions; 8,096 persons with probable SARS resulting in 774 deaths. In the United States, eight SARS infections were documented by laboratory testing and an additional 19 probable SARS infections were reported.
Top of Page
2004
January 13: CDC issues “Notice of Embargo of Civets.” A SARS-like virus had been isolated from civets (captured in areas of China where the SARS outbreak originated). CDC banned the importation of civets. The civet is a mammal with a catlike body, long legs, a long tail, and a masked face resembling a raccoon or weasel. The ban is currently still in effect.
Top of Page
2012
October 5: The National Select Agent Registry Program declared SARS-coronavirus a select agent. A select agent is a bacterium, virus or toxin that has the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety.
Page last reviewed: April 26, 2013
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fellatio_Martinez
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Makes a change from eating them.
eastwoodsdustman
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My first thought too.
derbyskyblue
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seen some crazy video of a nurse in wuhan saying 90,000 now infected, could hear gunshots in the background like a coup de grac for some poor fookas.
Sky Blue Pete
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For real?
derbyskyblue
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yep.
no_loyalty
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They reckon that there is a cover up in China and 1000'a not 100's have sadly died.
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OffenhamSkyBlue
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Well that would be a tragedy. But we can be sure that there are still only two cases confirmed in the UK, and long may that continue. But if China aren't going to be able to control the number of cases, we are going to have to stop any travel from there very soon.
Sky Blue Pete
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Recession would kill more than the virus I’m advised
2% mortality rate
Less than influenza .
The issue is it's more contagious.
Seems like a stick for some China bashing
They may have failed in some aspects in response but I've seen some muddled reaction here from our own authorities.
If it had broken out here would we have been more successful in containing it
I don't think so myself .
Governments in the west afraid to Govern on issues like this, entitled masses moaning about poor food on cruise ships etc .
Less than influenza .
The issue is it's more contagious.
Seems like a stick for some China bashing
They may have failed in some aspects in response but I've seen some muddled reaction here from our own authorities.
If it had broken out here would we have been more successful in containing it
I don't think so myself .
Governments in the west afraid to Govern on issues like this, entitled masses moaning about poor food on cruise ships etc .
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David O'Day
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Yeah it's actually quite a week virus but it's as you say a good excuse for some prick sto bvash foreigners
OffenhamSkyBlue
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That seems to be the only news story on it currently. Fuelled by the need to fill column-inches or radio minutes.
The headline mortality rate is unlikely to be anywhere near the 2% total deaths currently, who are the most susceptible to severe infection.
It also appears to be proving LESS easy to catch than standard flu strains.
The headline mortality rate is unlikely to be anywhere near the 2% total deaths currently, who are the most susceptible to severe infection.
It also appears to be proving LESS easy to catch than standard flu strains.
Sorry I may have it wrong
It is 4 times less likely to kill than SARS ,yet seems roughly 4 times as transmittable,in a third of that duration.
Is the. Length of incubation period likely to change the flu stat ,or the mortality rate to escalate?
OffenhamSkyBlue
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OK, so PHE have revised their advice, and it may affect some of you if you have been on holiday to Asia recently.
"UK Chief Medical Officers are advising anyone who has travelled to the UK from mainland China, Thailand, Japan, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia or Macau in the last 14 days and is experiencing cough or fever or shortness of breath, to stay indoors and call NHS 111, even if symptoms are mild".
"UK Chief Medical Officers are advising anyone who has travelled to the UK from mainland China, Thailand, Japan, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia or Macau in the last 14 days and is experiencing cough or fever or shortness of breath, to stay indoors and call NHS 111, even if symptoms are mild".
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CovID-19.
Are we sure that's not somebody registered on this forum?
Are we sure that's not somebody registered on this forum?
Sky Blue Pete
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My son said it should be renamed kungflu
OffenhamSkyBlue
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I saw the suggestion of WuFlu
Sick Boy
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Spared a 14 hour car journey from Verona in the end, thank fuck!
SkyBlueCharlie9
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The Sun is helpfully calling it the Snake Flu! (For clarification it's a scummy rag and I glanced at in the barbers the other day)
jimmyhillsfanclub
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I'm guessing you're just attention seeking.....but its not big or clever pal. think on.
richnrg
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FFS!
Stop the racism - it's not funny.
Houchens Head
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I just hope all those dead people don't turn into zombies! Wasn't the Walking Dead centered around some sort of virus kicking off?
OffenhamSkyBlue
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Starts again tonight, according to a colleague. Never watched it myself - don't think i have the right platform!
SkyBlueDom26
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Coronavirus spreads through Europe as five countries confirm new cases
Vaccination is need quickly!!
Vaccination is need quickly!!
Ring Of Steel
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No shit, sherlock :woot:
SkyBlueDom26
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Why you so mad mart?