カテゴリー: Sars
Data has been supplied to World Health Organization and China says flu and other known pathogens are culpritsA surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other know…
Dr Jiang Yanyong revealed true extent of 2003 outbreak and was put under house arrest for denouncing Tiananmen Square massacreA military surgeon who exposed the Chinese government’s cover-up of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic 20 y…
After the Sars outbreak on the island state in 2003, when 150,000 were quarantined, Taiwan vowed to be better prepared next timeAs I stepped into a cosy restaurant in Taipei, the waiter signalled for me to stop, then ran at me, gun in hand. He held it …
Exclusive: Dr Jiang Yangyong’s movements restricted after he wrote to authorities about 1989 Tiananmen Square protestsThe Chinese military surgeon who exposed the government’s cover-up of the the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic in 200…
The World Health Organization should not exclude Taiwan from efforts to tackle the outbreak, writes David YL Lin of the Taipei Representative Office. David E Hanke says an anthropomorphic explanation of viruses can be dangerous. And Robert East warns a…
Authoritarian bureaucracy has allowed dramatic response but also let virus festerCoronavirus outbreak – latest updatesWhen Wuhan’s mayor took to live national television to discuss the rapidly escalating outbreak of coronavirus in his city, he came pri…
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What are the symptoms, how is it transmitted from one person to another, and how is the virus from Wuhan in China related to Sars?Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infectionGermany confirms first human transmission in EuropeCoronavirus latest -…
Residents in cities affected by coronavirus hoard supplies and isolate themselves at homeCoronavirus latest news – live Chinese authorities have imposed lockdown measures on five cities in an unprecedented effort to contain the outbreak of the deadly n…
Number of cases, and deaths, could be much higher than those cited in official reports if claims are trueOn 12 January Huang got news his healthy 65-year-old mother had been checked into a hospital in the central Chinese city of Wuhan with a fever and …
Experts fear latest strain of virus may spread across planet from person to person It is a novel coronavirus – that is to say, a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals…
Two new cases confirmed in Chinese capital and one in southern Guangdong province amid fears of virus spreading over lunar new year China has reported 139 new cases of pneumonia, caused by the outbreak of a new coronavirus strain that medical experts a…
Authorities on alert ahead of lunar new year holiday as 139 new cases of strain detectedChina’s National Health Commission has confirmed human-to-human transmission of a mysterious Sars-like virus that has spread across the country and fuelled anxiety …
Three of the new cases are severe, with experts worried about the disease’s spread ahead of lunar new yearChina reported 17 new cases of the mysterious Sars-like virus on Sunday, including three in a severe condition, heightening fears ahead of China’s…