SARS Prevention & Preparedness: Update June 20, 2003

SARS: breaking the chains of transmission (WHO editorial)

Original documents from WHO & CDC

WHO: Coronavirus never before seen in humans is the cause of SARS

Damai - a Time for Peace - Proposal for a Public Awareness Campaign

SARS Prevention & Preparedness: Update July 25, 2003
SARS Statistics (WHO, July 5, 2003)
As of today, a cumulative total of 8437 probable SARS cases with 813 deaths has been reported from 29 countries.
This represents an increase ZERO new cases compared with June 20, about 5 weeks ago
To date, 7452 people have recovered from SARS, 172 people are still sick.
Overall Mortality to date is 8.79%.
(June 23: 10.07% - May 23: 13.74% - May 3: 13.87%).
However, there is reason now to be assume that the SARS epidemics has been successfully stopped.

Some facts about SARS:
The incubation period (time span between getting infected with a disease and the beginning of symptoms) for SARS lasts between 2 - 12 days.
There is no practical method available yet to detect a SARS infection before symptoms start.
Only about 10% - 20% of SARS infected people develop sever symptoms.
Many of these did previously not survive.
The majority of SARS infections cause only light flu-like symptoms.
If these people do not see doctors and get isolated, they may infect many other people in turn. Read more here

There was never a single case of SARS infection on Bali.
But the impact of SARS on tourism is very severe and job threatening:
Airport arrivals in April 2003 dropped to 53.714 compared to 72.263 in March 2003.

The Government of Indonesia and the provincial Government of Bali have been very focused on the problem of SARS prevention and did everything possible to prevent the SARS virus from spreading into Indonesian communities.

Please contact BaliSOS if you want to contribute with time or other recources!
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