TY - BOOK ID - 48298710 TI - SARS : reception and interpretation in three Chinese cities AU - Davis, Deborah AU - Siu, Helen F. PY - 2017 SN - 1135985278 128070473X 9786610704736 0203967690 0415770858 041565162X 113598526X 9812384421 PB - London : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - SARS (Disease) KW - Public health. KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - Acute respiratory syndrome, Severe KW - Respiratory syndrome, Severe acute KW - Severe acute respiratory syndrome KW - Coronavirus infections KW - Respiratory infections KW - Syndromes KW - outbreak KW - patient KW - virus KW - atypical KW - pneumonia KW - crisis KW - hong KW - kong KW - jiang KW - yanyong UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48298710 AB - SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantine in the absence of any scientific knowledge of the disease. Now three years on from the initital outbreak, SARS poses no major threat and has vanished from ER -