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  • It started like a regular cold for Mr Lee in the spring of 2003.

  • But soon he was experiencing severe tenderly.

  • I don't know.

  • Whoa, whoa.

  • You okay?

  • Hi.

  • Hi.

  • Why?

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  • I want my attire.

  • He spent two months in that.

  • And with an influx of patients experiencing similar symptoms, scientists at Hong Kong's universities worked around the clock to identify what was causing it and how to treat it.

  • Difficulties.

  • You don't know what you're treating.

  • All right.

  • The pizza having fever in the pneumonia.

  • And we haven't found a found anything at that time.

  • So everybody is very inches of Try to find what is wrong with patients.

  • The disease was eventually called SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome, a virus that's first spread in densely populated animal markets in southern China.

  • In the spring of 2003 it was brought to Hong Kong by a visiting doctor, and within weeks, it's spread throughout the city.

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  • How you and how would I know?

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  • The envoy gardens private housing estate in Calhoun was one of the black spots for disease transmission E bones, little haven taking Waddle attend.

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  • In total, over 1700 people in Hong Kong were infected and nearly 300 people died.

  • Many of the survivors still suffer from SARS long term effects.

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  • Lee hasn't been able to work since he got ill.

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  • Our union, huh?

  • What do you got that long?

  • Tai Lung got no finding quite full Or what if the whole golden bang bulletins and dangle In the years after SARS, the Hong Kong government has taken extensive measures to promote public hygiene, hoping to avert the next pandemic.

  • For Professor Yoon says it's only a matter of time as his horrible guess is cute and also the mortalities around 10%.

  • It will come back if you opened up all the wildlife markets in China again.

  • And you can see that things always repeat itself.

  • If he comes many years later, people would.

  • All the vigilance will be gone and the Vegas much bigger.

  • All the measures that we're now taken would be, uh, so downgraded that when it comes, we would not be able to handle it because of the loss of agents.

  • But it becomes earlier than it's usually easier because now we at least in the public house sector, we are still very concerned about emerging infectious diseases.

It started like a regular cold for Mr Lee in the spring of 2003.

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