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4 unusual facts about severe acute respiratory syndrome


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.

Gold Sands Beach

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

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.


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.

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.


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