SARS Coronavirus 2002-2003..
The SARS coronavirus appeared in November 2002 in the Guangdong province of southern China.
This coronavirus epidemic affected 26 countries and resulted in 8,096 cases, with 774 deaths, between 1 November 2002 to 31 July 2003.
The duration appears to have lasted 9 months.
During the SARS coronavirus outbreak, the majority of cases (92%) and deaths (89%) occurred in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Most deaths that occurred in other countries were from people who arrived with the disease.
- China, Hong Kong and Taiwan combined had 7,428 cases and 685 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
- Canada had 251 cases with 43 deaths.
- Singapore had 238 cases with 33 deaths.
- Vietnam had 63 cases with 5 deaths.
- Philippines had 14 cases and 2 deaths.
The other countries that had recorded deaths were:
- 2 deaths in Thailand from 9 cases. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 2 deaths in Malaysia from 5 cases. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 1 death in France from 7 cases. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 1 death in South Africa from 1 cases. All from people who arrived with the disease.
The countries that had recorded cases, but no deaths, were:
- 27 cases in United States. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 9 cases in Germany. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 9 cases in Mongolia. 8 of these were from people who arrived with the disease.
- 6 cases in Australia. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 5 cases in Sweden. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 4 cases in Italy. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 4 cases in United Kingdom. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 3 cases in India. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 3 cases in Republic of Korea . All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 2 cases in Indonesia. All from people who arrived with the disease.
- 1 case in Kuwait. This one arrived with the disease.
- 1 case in New Zealand. This one arrived with the disease.
- 1 case in Republic of Ireland. This one arrived with the disease.
- 1 case in Romania This one arrived with the disease.
- 1 case in Russian Federation. This one arrived with the disease.
- 1 case in Spain. This one arrived with the disease.
- 1 case in Switzerland. This one arrived with the disease.
The duration appears to have lasted 9 months.
Since the end of the global epidemic in July 2003, SARS has reappeared four times – three times from laboratory accidents (Singapore and Chinese Taipei), and once in southern China where the source of infection remains undetermined although there is circumstantial evidence of animal-to-human transmission.
Sources:
https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/
https://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/table2004_04_21/en/
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There was no vaccine finalised for SARS.
Work began on vaccines, but were later shelved after the outbreaks were contained.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/coronavirus-vaccine-when-will-it-be-ready
Coronaviruses have caused two other recent epidemics – severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in China in 2002-04, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers), which started in Saudi Arabia in 2012. In both cases, work began on vaccines that were later shelved when the outbreaks were contained. One company, Maryland-based Novavax, has now repurposed those vaccines for Sars-CoV-2, and says it has several candidates ready to enter human trials this spring. Moderna, meanwhile, built on earlier work on the Mers virus conducted at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland