What Should the Dean Do?(Disease/Disorder Overview‪)‬

A coronavirus that normally occurs in some nonhuman animals infected humans and caused what came to be called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). In 2003, not long after the initial infections occurred in Guandong, China, SARS spread to almost thirty countries. By the time the disease was contained, about eight thousand people had contracted the virus, and approximately eight hundred had died. The course of the disease in Taiwan was typical. The first cases were people who returned to Taiwan from China. Health care professionals tried to identify and isolate these people to prevent transmission, and for two months this seemed to work. Then a series of outbreaks originating in seven different hospitals led to many more infections. By the end of the epidemic, Taiwan had about four hundred confirmed cases of SARS.