Health > SARS total cases: Countries Compared
Author: Ian Graham, Staff Editor
Two SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) studies - one in the Journal of Infectious Diseases and one in Clinical Infectious Diseases – raise the possibility that SARS may spread through the air and not only through direct person-to-person contact. <p>In the first study, conducted in Toronto, Canada during an outbreak in 2003, researchers collected air samples from the SARS units of four hospitals. They detected the SARS coronavirus in the air of one patient’s room, the first confirmation of the virus in an infected person’s room. <p>The second study, from Hong Kong, found that 50 percent of patients in hospital bays adjacent to a SARS patient became infected, compared with 18 percent of patients in hospital bays further away.<p>Neither study revealed a documented case of airborne transmission of SARS, but the higher rates of infection among nearby patients in the Hong Kong study suggest it is possible.
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Interesting observations about Health > SARS total cases
- United Kingdom ranked second last for SARS total cases amongst Group of 7 countries (G7) in 2003.
- Canada ranked first for SARS total cases amongst English speaking countries in 2003.
- China ranked first for SARS total cases amongst Non-religious countries in 2003.
- United States ranked second for SARS total cases amongst High income OECD countries in 2003.
- Russia ranked second last for SARS total cases amongst Emerging markets in 2003.
- 2 of the top 3 countries by SARS total cases are Densely populated.
- Indonesia ranked second last for SARS total cases amongst East Asia and Pacific in 2003.
- Germany ranked first for SARS total cases amongst European Union in 2003.
- All of the bottom 2 countries by SARS total cases are Cold countries'.
- 5 of the bottom 6 countries by SARS total cases are European.
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Posted on 12 Apr 2005
Ian Graham, Staff Editor
