Legacy of SARS in Asia offers lessons for Ebola fight
The SARS outbreak of 2003 put Hong Kong on the frontline of a global health crisis — but the city's ultimately successful war on the virus offers lessons for those now battling Ebola. The flu-like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome infected 1,800 people and took 299 lives in the southern Chinese city. Eleven years later, the legacy of SARS can still be seen every day in Hong Kong. "All this came about after SARS," said Nelson Lee, head of infectious diseases at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
