Was the fuss overblown?

To the friends and relatives of the 800-plus people slain by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), this might seem like a callous question. But SARS barely registers a blip in the annual body count caused by infectious disease. Influenza is likely to kill up to half-a-million people in 2003, whe...

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094982/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature.2003.1
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description To the friends and relatives of the 800-plus people slain by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), this might seem like a callous question. But SARS barely registers a blip in the annual body count caused by infectious disease. Influenza is likely to kill up to half-a-million people in 2003, whereas the death tolls from malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS will each run to seven figures. So, when the outbreak is put into perspective, was the panic over SARS really warranted?
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spelling pubmed-70949822020-03-26 Was the fuss overblown? Nature Q&A To the friends and relatives of the 800-plus people slain by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), this might seem like a callous question. But SARS barely registers a blip in the annual body count caused by infectious disease. Influenza is likely to kill up to half-a-million people in 2003, whereas the death tolls from malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS will each run to seven figures. So, when the outbreak is put into perspective, was the panic over SARS really warranted? Nature Publishing Group UK 2003-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7094982/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature.2003.1 Text en © Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. 2019 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094982/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature.2003.1

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