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Epidemiology of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS)
In Malaysia, the outbreak resulted is two deaths due to the probability of SARS in Jerantut, Pahang and Penang. The victim who involved with history has ever visited China or Singapore. Table below shows the total number of cases includes those who've recovered or died. This Table shows the incidence of SARS in Malaysia since WHO records began on April to May 2003.
MALAYSIA
Infection Mortality Recovered Reclassified
8 2 5 2
SARS epidemic has believe start from Guangdong, China. Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore and Taiwan are the most Asian country have been effect by this syndrome.
“Figure 1.Epidemic curve, Hong Kong.”
ASIA
CountryCumulative number of
case(s)Number of
deathsCase fatality
ratio (%)
China 5327 349 7
Hong Kong 1755 299 17
India 3 0 0
Indonesia 2 0 0
Kuwait 1 0 0
Macao 1 0 0
MALAYSIA* 5 2 40
Mongolia 9 0 0
Philippines 14 2 14
Republic of Korea
3 0 0
Singapore 238 33 14
Taiwan 346 37 11
Thailand 9 2 22
Vietnam 63 5 8Table 2 .The official number of SARS cases reported from Asian countries over the time period November 1, 2002 to July 31, 2003
SARS began spreading around the world along international air travel routes to North America and a few country in Europe. Among the most effected country is Canada with 251 cases.
Table 3 .The official number of SARS cases reported from countries over the time period November 1, 2002
to July 31, 2003
WORLDWIDE
CountryCumulative number of
case(s)Number of
deathsCase fatality
ratio (%)
Australia 6 0 0
Canada 251 43 17
France 7 1 14
Germany 9 0 0
Italy 4 0 0
New Zealand 1 0 0
Republic of Ireland
1 0 0
Romania 1 0 0
Russian Federation
1 0 0
South Africa 1 1 100
Spain 1 0 0
Sweden 5 0 0
Switzerland 1 0 0
United Kingdom
4 0 0
United States 29 0 9
Total 8098 774 9.6