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How you get the disease - genetic? lifestyle? Can you 'catch it'?

The Source of SARS

Sars appears to have started in a province in Guang Zhou. It started in november 2003. Apparently the doctors and nurses thought it was just a common cold. When the doctors were treating the patients they didn't wear masks, just because it looked like a common cold and nothing serious. Soon after that patient died the SARS virus started spreading. It spread to almost every patient in the hospital creating a massive epidemic through out china.

Tourists started entering china and getting infected, after they got infected they went out of the country to be treated so then later on the whole world was infected by SARS.

Raccoon Dog, what we think is one of the natrual hosts of SARS Masked palm civet (below) Most infections came from the food handlers, butchers, and merchants. Sars seems to have started from animals, eating dirty animals. The natrual host were from mammals closely related to the SARS disease. "The study found that the species species (the Chinese ferret badger, masked palm civet, and raccoon dog) elicited antibodies against the SARS-CoV."

You can get the disease by close person to person contact, Or you can get it by airborne, respiratory

Q: Where did SARS come originate from (on the map)

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