POL101Y1 Lecture : POL101Y March 26th.docx
14 Apr 2012
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Early 2003, in the guangzhou outbreak one third of infected patients were health care workers, including dr. l. j. k, went to hong kong and on the flight infected someone who went to toronto, who infected all of toronto and so on. History of exposure and fever above 38 degrees celcius. And others but no definitive markers and no consensus. Sars is caused by a coronavirus, a virus that similarly cause a common cold type of syndrome. Sars is a zoonosis, a disease that travels from animals to humans, very hard to get insight on the disease if it never existed in human history. 8098 people worldwide probably had sars in 29 countries and 774 died. Canada: 438 probable cases, 44 deaths (all in toronto) Flu kills 750-2500 canadians a year- triple that number of sars. Learning from sars: renewal of public health in canada. National advisory committee on sars and public health.
