SARS Timeline

Cases of SARS appear in Guangdong Province

Nov 16, 2002

The inital cases of SARS appeared in Guangdong during November 2002

First person to Identify virus (Dr Carlo Urban)

Feb 28, 2003

First victim was Johnny Chen and his doctor first identified the virus.

Outbreaks of pneumonia in Vietnam hospitals

Mar 7, 2003

Index Case

Mar 19, 2003

The WHO realized that the index case was in the Metropole (hotel in HK). The first victims had all visited the hotel (9th floor).

2nd Toronto Outbreak

Mar 22, 2003

Another 5 cases was reported in Toronto. This is Toronto's second outbreak.

Chinese confess the cases were higher than said

Apr 20, 2003

The Chinese government state that there were actually more cases than they said. From 22 cases to 339.

Outbreaks in 4 places

Apr 25, 2003

Outbreaks in Hanoi, Hong Kong, Toronto and Singapore.

Taiwan Chaos

May 20, 2003

More than 150 doctors and staff quit their jobs in hospitals in one week. 9 major hospitals were shut down.

HK is safe :))

Jun 23, 2003

HK has been declared safe!

Taiwan is free!!

Jul 5, 2003

Taiwan has been declared free of SARS! Now, SARS is free around the world!!