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-Chinese authorities in the Gangdang province report that 300 people have become ill and five have died in an outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness.
-This is where SARS is thought to originate. -
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-Patient A, from the Guangdong province develops symptoms of SARS. He then travels to Hong Kong to visit family. -
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-Patient A checks into a hotel in Hong Kong.
-Tweleve guests in a hotel contract the illness.
-The guests fly home carrying the virus with them to five different countries.
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-Patient A is hospitilized in Hong Kong and dies the next day.
-Dr. Carlo Urbani examins Patient A. He reports to the World Health Organiztion about the "atypitical pnemonia"
-Four hospital workers and two family members of Patient A become ill, one family member dies.
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- A 78 year old women who had traveled to Hong Kong dies of SARS in Toronto. (CBC News)
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-The World Health Organization issues a global SARS alert warning travelers returning from Asia to watch for SARS like symptoms.
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-Canadian health officials report 11 cses of SARS in Toronto, British Columbia and Alberta.
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-Health officials in Singapore quarantine hundreds of people possibly exposed to SARS.
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-More than 1000 people have been quarantines in Hong Kong.
-Singapore and Hong Kong close down all schools.
-The World Health Organization reports more than 1,400 cases worldwide with 53 deaths.
-Toronto hospitals are closed to visitors, expempting only those who are visiting critically ill patients and parents visiting children.
-The World Health Organization reports more than 1,400 cases worldwide with 53 deaths.
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-Ontario health officials report around 100 probable SARS cases in the province.
-Dr. Carlo Urbani who first identified SARS dies from the disease in Thailand.
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-The province of Guangdang, has nearly 700 SARS cases.
-The World Health Organization advises travelers to stay away from Hong Kong and China, Death toll reaches 6 in Canada.
-By April the disease has infected 1,700 people in 16 countries and killed 62.
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-A total of 361 new cases of SARS are reported for the month of March.
-Total number of cases in Guangdong province rises to 1,163.
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-The World Health Organization reports a total of 2,353 probable SARS cases, 84 of them fatil, in 16 countries.
-There are 163 probable or suspected cases of SARS in the Toronto area.
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-The World HEalth Organization reports that the total number of probable SARS cases worldwide reaches 2671, 103 deaths in 20 countries.
-More than 1,200 cases and 53 fatalities have been reported in China.
-The death toll in Canada is 10 and Singapore is 9.
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-Three more people die from SARS in the Toronto area, brining the Canadian death toll to 13.
-Another 12 people die from SARS in Hong Kong, bringing the regins death toll to 81, this is the highest in any location affected by the outbreak.
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-The didease continues to spread around the globe as those who have the illness travel.
-In vietnam 20 days pass without reports of any new SARS cases. Vietname becomes the first country to succesfully contain its SARS outbreak.
-Worldwide there are more than 5,000 probable cases of SARS with 321 fatalities in 26 countries. -
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-The World Health Organization considers the SARS threat under control and all travel advisories have been lifted.
-8,099 people in 32 countries have been infected with 744 of those cases fatal.
-No new cases have been reported since July.
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