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🗓️ 27 June 2018
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Early 2003 saw a medical emergency sweep across the world. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome was a deadly virus which had first struck in southern China but soon there were cases as far away as Canada. William Ho and Tom Buckley were at the forefront of the battle against the epidemic.
Photo: Image of the SARS virus. Credit: Science Photo Library.
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0:34.4 | you back to 2003 when a deadly virus called SARS was causing fear across much of East Asia. |
0:41.6 | Between the end of 2002 and the summer of 2003, severe acute |
0:47.2 | respiratory syndrome had killed more than 700 people and made thousands more ill. Life had almost come to a standstill as |
0:55.7 | travel restrictions were imposed to try to contain the virus, but on June the |
1:00.4 | 5th the World Health, had some good news. |
1:04.4 | We think right now that the epidemic is behind us. |
1:07.6 | It's not in front of us anymore. |
1:09.9 | What comes next, we're not sure. |
1:11.8 | The numbers are reassuring and we're glad to have them |
1:13.8 | come down but if people were to drop their guard now it would be very premature |
1:19.3 | at last it seemed that the nightmare which had begun in Guangdong, southern China in late 2002 might be coming to an end. |
1:26.8 | But SARS might never have reached the rest of the world |
1:30.0 | had it not been for a wedding invitation. |
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