SARS

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the latest international outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which was initially described as a strange and mysterious lung disease that killed a handful of people in China. It analyzes how it was handled and how it could have potentially been the work of bio-terrorists. It looks at how the nations of the world worked together to contain the outbreak in the same manner that they would have to do in the event that a bio-attack were launched on any nation.

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"Using SARS as a model for handling a bio-terrorist attack one can easily see the positive and negative aspects of the way it was spread and contained. One of the first mistakes that were made was the allowance of travel when the virus was first discovered. In the future if there is any hint of possible bio-terrorist attacks it will be essential to stop all travel to or from the area in question. This was only done after the virus began to spread outside of Asia and show itself in other nations.
Something that was done well was the containment efforts. Once it was discovered in Canada and other nations there were immediate efforts to quarantine anyone with symptoms and to examine them immediately to determine if they in fact had SARS."

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