歷史今天:2002年第一例非典病例被發現(11.16)
【英文原文】
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS; pronounced /sɑrz/, sarz) is a respiratory disease in humans which is caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). There has been one near pandemic to date, between the months of November 2002 and July 2003, with 8,096 known infected cases and 774 deaths (a case-fatality rate of 9.6%) worldwide being listed in the World Health Organization's (WHO) 21 April 2004 concluding report. Within a matter of weeks in early 2003, SARS spread from the Guangdong province of China to rapidly infect individuals in some 37 countries around the world.
【中文譯文】
嚴重急性呼吸系統綜合症（SARS;發音/sɑrz/，sarz）是由SARS冠狀病毒引起的呼吸系統疾病。它是迄今爲止流行病之一，在世界衛生組織2004年4月21日的總結報告中，2002年11月至2003年7月已有8096個已知的感染病例和774例死亡（病例的病死率9.6％）。在2003年初的短短几個星期內，，非典型肺炎從中國廣東省的迅速感染了約37個國家。
