SARS reception and interpretation in three Chinese cities
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 fa...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge
2006.
2017. |
| Series: | Routledge contemporary China series ;
16. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429696406719 |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9789812384423 9781135985264 9781135985271 9781280704734 9786610704736 9780203967690 |
