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Many infections,From One Hotel Guest
A Chinese medical professor stayed at the Metropole Hotel.
He treated SARS patients in Guangdong and became infected.
He went to Kwong Wah Hospital.His two relatives and four medical p
ersonnels caught the disease.
SARS would not have spread ……
if he had not stayed at the hotel.
A Chinese medical professor stayed at the Metropole Hotel.
SARS would not have spread
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SARS would not have spread
He went to Kwong Wah Hospital.
if he had not gone to Kwong Wah Hospital.
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Four medical personnels caught the disease.
if the four medical personnels had not caught the disease.
SARS would not have spread
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A businessman from Shanghai stayed at Metropole Hotel.He contracted SARS.
He flew to Hanoi and started an outbreak.
A WHO doctor treated him and caught the disease in Vietnam.
The doctor later died in Bangkok.SARS would not have spread ……
Three tourists from Singapore stayed at Metropole Hotel.They passed SARS on to
health workers and others.A physician in Singapore travelled to
New York City. He was detained and
hospitalized in Germany.
SARS would not have spread ……
A Canadian couple stayed at Metropole Hotel.
They returned to Toronto and infected five relatives.
A cluster began in a hospital.
Many cases spread among a religious group.
SARS would not have spread ……
Two other Metropole guests became infected.
They were taken to two different hospitals.
The staff of both hospitals were infected and passed SARS on to
family members. Other patients in the hospitals
also contracted SARS.
SARS would not have spread ……
A kidney patient from the Prince of Wales Hospital
became a “super infector”.He visited his brother at Block
E of the Amoy Gardens.The disease infected over 300
people living in Block E. The infection was spread through
the sewers.
SARS would not have spread ……
How to stop SARS from spreading?
• Wash hands often• Improve hygiene• Wear face masks• Watch for SARS symptoms • Close schools• Quarantine people exposed to SARS• Screen travelers for SARS• Make more efforts to protect health care
workers• Pay attention to update information
