What year was SARS in China?

In 2002. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) first appeared in Shunde, China in 2002. It spread to Southeast Asia and even the whole world, and it was not until mid-2003 that the epidemic was gradually eliminated.

During this period, a series of events occurred: causing social panic, many patients died, including medical staff, the treatment of the disease in various countries around the world, the naming of the disease, the discovery and naming of pathogenic microorganisms, the attention of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the media, and so on.

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Details of epidemic situation: The disease broke out for the first time in Shunde, Guangdong on June 6, 2002+165438. The first patient who reported the case was Huang Xingchu, who was found sick in Heyuan City on June 5, 2002+February 6+May. On June 5438+1October 10, 2003, Huang Xingchu recovered and was discharged from hospital, and was later confirmed as the first reported case of atypical pneumonia in China.

From the end of June, 5438 to February, 2002, there was a rumor of a fatal strange disease in Guangdong, and it was even said that a large number of patients died in some hospitals because of this strange disease. Because it is said that boiling vinegar and drinking Radix Isatidis can prevent strange diseases, there is a wave of buying rice vinegar and Radix Isatidis in the market.

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