The epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002-03 suggested a wider exposure zone, however.
The growth is flattered by poor economic performance last year, when the economy was hit by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars).
Several outbreaks of serious infections such as influenza, measles, severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and tuberculosis have been reported on commercial flights.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged in China last November and has (as of Apr. 7) infected 2, 600 and killed 98 in 19 countries.
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) had barely become public knowledge this year before scientists the world over were scrambling to identify the new ill.
More recently, there have been worries about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and a strain of flu known as H5N1 in 2008, though neither created the pandemic researchers feared they might.
This outbreak, on top of another death last month in Saudi Arabia from a previously unknown virus, a cousin of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), has set global health agencies on edge.
According to South China Morning Post, Hong Kong last drew unlucky sticks in 2009, year of the global financial crisis, and in 2003, when severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) killed hundreds in the city.
International health experts have commended China on its transparency in reporting the spread of the virus, in sharp contrast to its handling of a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak in 2003, when 8, 096 people were infected worldwide and 744 died.
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in Asia in 2003 only infected around 8, 000 people and killed about a tenth of these.
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They recall the epidemic in 2003 of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, which killed hundreds of people before disappearing as mysteriously as it had arrived.
The infections are nonetheless reviving fears among the public of an epidemic a decade after a devastating outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which crippled tourism in China and Hong Kong.
Consumer spending was hurt and millions of Chinese dawned facial masks in the spring of 2003 when the country was the epicenter of a global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, that killed several hundred people worldwide.
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Consumer spending was hurt and millions of Chinese dawned facial masks as a grim part of life in 2003 when the country was the epicenter of a global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, that killed several hundred people worldwide.
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At the time, both sectors had been hit by the effects of the war in Iraq, a so-so economy and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The latter, a viral illness first reported in Asia, was blamed for 774 deaths in 2003 and whipped up fears that aircraft cabins were prone to contagion.
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses ranging from the common cold to the Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus.
Coronaviruses are a group of viruses ranging from the common cold to the Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus.
The bird flu outbreak coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak that killed at least 349 people in China.
SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, casts a menacing shadow over the first half of the book, which adds to the general impression of poverty and gloom.
The biggest news for business continues to come from outside the business realm: first the war in Iraq, and now the outbreak of the so-called SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses ranging from the common cold to the Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus, spread through droplets of body fluids produced by sneezing and coughing.
The new virus is a coronavirus with similar symptoms to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which emerged in China in 2002 and killed around a 10th of the 8, 000 people it infected worldwide.
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The authorities appear to have learned the lessons of previous deadly virus outbreaks such as the H5N1 avian flu and Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), and this time around have been quick to share information with the WHO.
The bird flu outbreak is also on the front pages of many Hong Kong newspapers and it coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak that killed at least 349 people on the mainland, triggering a global epidemic.
His death came at a dark time for his hometown as Hong Kong was hit with the SARS epidemic (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
NCoV has also been compared to related coronavirus, the one that causes SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which appears to have been contained in 2004, according to the CDC.
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NCoV has also been compared to a related coronavirus, the one that causes SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which appears to have been contained in 2004, according to the CDC.
Novel coronavirus is part of a family called coronaviruses, which cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, as well as a variety of animal diseases.
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