In November 2002, a businessman from the city of Foshan in thesouthern Chinese province of Guangdong may have been the firstvictim of a mysterious illness called severe acute respiratorysyndrome (SARS). Guangdong Province, an agricultural area witha population of 75 million, has thousands of farms with largeand small animals, a subtropical climate, and rainfall of about2 m per year.
The first patient and many others received no internationalattention until February 2003, when a physician from GuangdongProvince became ill while staying on the ninth floor of a hotelin Hong Kong. Twelve guests became . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Bouadma L., Noël V., Schortgen F., Donohue C., Wenzel R. P., Edmond M. B.
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