Assessment of transmissibility and measures effectiveness of SARS in 8 regions, China, 2002-2003.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a form of atypical pneumonia which took hundreds of lives when it swept the world two decades ago. The pathogen of SARS was identified as SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and it was mainly transmitted in China during the SARS epidemic in 2002-2003. SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 have emerged from the SARS metapopulation of viruses. However, they gave rise to two different disease dynamics, a limited epidemic, and an uncontrolled pandemic, respectively. The characteristics of its spread in China are particularly noteworthy. In this paper, the unique characteristics of time, space, population distribution and transmissibility of SARS for the epidemic were discussed in detail.

Methods

We adopted sliding average method to process the nu

SUBMITTER: Rui J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10449464 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature