When did SARS happen?

In the spring of 2003, the following is a brief introduction.

Brief introduction of SARS

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (severe

serious

respiratory

SARS is a kind of atypical pneumonia. After the pathogen of the disease was determined, the World Health Organization (WHO) named it "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome" according to the characteristics of the disease. Until the cause is found out, it is called "atypical pneumonia".

atypical pneumonia

(atypical)

Pneumonia refers to pneumonia caused by mycoplasma, chlamydia, Legionella, rickettsia, adenovirus and other unknown microorganisms. Typical pneumonia refers to lobar pneumonia or bronchopneumonia caused by common bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae.

In fact, in the medical field, the name of this infectious disease was controversial in 2003, because it has been found that this disease is actually not the "atypical pneumonia" often mentioned in medicine, but the "infectious coronavirus pneumonia".

For this kind of infectious diseases, people's understanding has gradually deepened and their concepts have gradually become correct. At first, people thought chlamydia virus was the cause of the disease, and it was not until March 2003 that the pathogen was identified as "coronavirus". Doctors in Guangdong, China first used "atypical pneumonia" on June 22nd, 65438. According to its clinical symptoms, such as fever, cough and shadow in the lungs. However, compared with pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae and other bacteria, the symptoms are atypical, the pathogen is not completely clear, and it is highly contagious, so the use of antibacterial drugs is ineffective. The World Health Organization also confirmed its drug.

Europe, referred to as ATP. At the end of February, Carlo, an Italian infectious disease expert at the World Health Organization? City Barney (Carlo

Urbani) the doctor named it as severe according to the information he had at that time.

serious

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symptomes complice

SARS was officially replaced by the World Health Organization on March 5th, 65438+.

In fact,

severe

serious

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The name syndrome does not fully reflect the essential characteristics of the disease, and it has long been suggested that it be named "infectious coronavirus pneumonia" (if so, it can be called "crown lung" for short). Although this suggestion has not been accepted by the society and medical circles, it is enough to prove that SARS, like SARS, reflects people's understanding of the distinctive characteristics of things at a certain stage.

A cure has been found so far. Scientists from China and the European Union have jointly found 15 compounds which can effectively kill SARS virus, providing a new method for synthesizing SARS therapeutic drugs. On June 9, 2005, Chinese and European scientists announced this achievement at the annual meeting of the project "SARS diagnosis and virus research in China and Europe".

Recent research by the University of Hong Kong shows that bats may be the wild hosts of SARS virus.

Zhou Gang, an expert in computer Chinese character input, proposed in 2003 that "atypical pneumonia" can be called "tuberculosis".

However, it is still suggested to call it SARS in the medical field according to the naming principle of the World Health Organization (WHO). Like WHO, the Hong Kong medical community changed its name to SARS and Chinese mainland at the first time. Because people have always referred to it as "SARS", it is not recommended to change the entry itself.