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unusual facts about SARS



10th Canadian Infantry Brigade

Two batteries of the 15th Field Regiment, RCA were placed in support and The South Alberta Regiment (SARs) would place its tanks on the friendly side of the canal at either side of the crossing point and hold the flanks of the crossing with their fire along with the Vickers machine guns of The New Brunswick Rangers.

2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak

On 28 May 2013, a report by the Associated Press said a French patient died of the novel coronavirus related to SARS.

Alain Sars

Sars was involved in some controversy in the game between AIK and Barcelona, when he wrongfully allowed a goal for Barcelona.

Beijing Institute of Genomics

In 2003, SARS virus became epidemic in China and BIG was the first to sequence SARS virus whole genome in China.

Carlo Urbani

Carlo Urbani (Castelplanio, Italy October 19, 1956 – Bangkok, Thailand March 29, 2003) was an Italian physician and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as a new and dangerously contagious disease.

CBC.ca

In 2003, CBC won an Online News Association award in the "service journalism" category for its coverage of the SARS epidemic.

Century Aviation

Project was launched in mid 2003 planning flights between Mexico City and PRC, but the commencement of the Gulf War and the SARS epidemic caused the cancellation of the project in the same year.

Clinical surveillance

Many large institutions, such as the WHO and the CDC, have created databases and modern computer systems (public health informatics) that can track and monitor emerging outbreaks of illnesses such as influenza, SARS, HIV, and even bioterrorism, such as the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States.

Corrupted Blood incident

In March 2007, Ran D Balicer, an epidemiologist physician at the Ben-Gurion University in Israel, published an article in the journal Epidemiology describing the similarities between this outbreak and the recent SARS and avian influenza outbreaks.

Gold Sands Beach

Because of the Severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS), there were great changes in principle, activities content and organization operations.

John O. Agwunobi

His department's many successes included responses to West Nile virus, SARS, other infectious disease outbreaks, efforts to decrease the state's infant mortality rate, lowering tobacco use among young Floridians, addressing racial and ethnic health disparities, and improving overall access to medical and dental care.

Meng Xuenong

A native of Penglai county, Shandong, Meng had previous provincial-level leadership experience as Mayor of Beijing, until he was dramatically sacked for his failure to control and conceal the SARS epidemic.

Peter Hotez

As President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Director of its product development partnership (PDP) Hotez leads an international team of scientists working to develop vaccines to combat hookworm infection, schistosomiasis, and other infectious and neglected diseases, including Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, and SARS.

SARS conspiracy theory

The SARS conspiracy theory began to emerge during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in China in the spring of 2003, when Sergei Kolesnikov, a Russian scientist and a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, first publicized his claim that the SARS coronavirus is a synthesis of measles and mumps.

Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology

The Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology is a research establishment located at Bergen in Norway.

SL-CoV-WIV1

SL-CoV-WIV1 which stands for SARS-like coronavirus WIV1, is a newly identified CoV isolated from Chinese rufous horseshoe bats.

Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project

An international conference on chronology arranged for October 2003 was postponed due to the SARS outbreak, but never rescheduled.

Xiaotangshan

It also appeared in the news in May 2003 when the government hastily built a 1000-bed field hospital there to deal with an outbreak of SARS.

Yellowworld

In May 2003, Yellowworld.org began Project SARSfund, an online charity to purchase medical supplies and equipment for health workers in China battling the SARS epidemic.


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