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ice for travellers and airlines. The warning made headlines across the world as authorities scrambled to contain the disease or prevent outbreaks from imported cases. Some were better prepared than others. After anthrax was distributed through the US postal service by suspected bioterrorists following the September 2001 attacks, the United States was ready to react and has had few cases and no deaths.

 

China’s failure to admit the true extent of the SARS outbreak drew severe criticism from governments and from WHO’s Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland. China had been hardest hit (24 June 2003), with 5327 cases and 348 deaths reported from throughout the mainland. Beijing and Guangdong were the most severely affected, with 4033 of these cases and 250 of the deaths.

 

SARS has been devastating for Asia’s economies and has helped to further depress the international tourism and airline business. Taiwan blamed the outbreak for its recession, Hong Kong said it would spend US$ 1.5 billion to ease the impact of the outbreak on business, and the Asian Development Bank is seeking approval for US$ 30 million in loans to SARS-affected countries in the region. In China, SARS, at least for a while, presented a powerful political challenge, and forced the country’s leaders to think about accountability and openness.

 

WHO has been criticized by some for “exaggerating” the threat of SARS and causing economic damage, particularly in Toronto. But on the whole, the Organization, so often lambasted as bureaucratic and distant from reality, has been praised for its early warning of the dangers and the way it coordinated global efforts to contain SARS. WHO teams assisting in affected areas have risked their lives. Dr Carlo Urbani, the WHO infectious diseases

 

expert in Vietnam who first drew attention to the new disease, also became one of its first victims. WHO teams were at every outbreak site in Asia, and highly active in epidemiological investigation, infection control and research coordination.

 

Scientists know a little about SARS, but there are still many unanswered questions. We know that SARS belongs to the coronavirus family which causes the common cold, that its maximum incubation period is probably 10 days, that it originated in Guangdong in southern China and that one person can infect a great number of people in a short space of time. But scientists are still not certain of the precise origin of the disease, which is the key to predicting its further evolution.

 

3.Impact on Global Business

 

Even a flu with “normal” characteristics in terms of transmissibility and deadliness could have serious consequences for the world economy if the world’s population has limited immunity. Estimates suggest that such a flu could infect as much as 35 percent 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。