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推薦人：香港大學醫學院院長林兆鑫
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Book Title : Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of SARS (Hardcover)
Author Name(s) : Abraham Thomas
Format : 176 Pages
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : September 1, 2004
Description:
In the autumn of 2002 in southern China, a previously unknown virus jumped the species barrier from animal to man, and sparked the first global epidemic of the new century. The disease sped along the air routes of a globalized world, spreading within months to 31 countries in every continent.
Before it was reined in by a remarkable international scientific effort, the virus demonstrated just how vulnerable human society is to disease. Emerging new infectious diseases like SARS have been erupting at an alarming rate over the past few decades. There is every indication that the world will continue to face new viral diseases, some of which will be much more lethal and contagious than SARS.
This book looks at the emergence of new diseases, as well as the politics and economics of disease. It provides the first behind-the-scenes account of how the battle against SARS was fought in Hong Kong, China and at the global level. A crucial success in the battle was the identification of the SARS virus.
Thomas Abraham, with full access to the scientists who solved this puzzle, tells the story of the research and vividly shows the pressures on the researchers as they raced to find an answer, even as colleagues and friends succumbed to the disease.
Thomas Abraham is one of Asia's most experienced international journalists, with a 25-year career reporting from locations as varied as Sri Lanka, Geneva, and London. He has also worked for the United Nations in Geneva, and has been a commentator for BBC news programs. A former editor of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, he is currently on the faculty of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong.
A terrifying disease. . . Speeding along the air routes of a globalized world
"The caller at the other end of the phone was from the Manila office of the World Health Organization (WHO), and his message was alarming. Flying over the Atlantic Ocean on a Singapore Airlines flight was a critically ill man who had to be hospitalized in an isolation ward as soon as possible. . . . There were over 300 passengers on the jet, which was bound for Singapore via Frankfurt, and unless the man was taken off the plane, they were all in danger."
"On March 15, while David Heymann and his team were toiling away on their global travel alert in Geneva, a 72-year-old man boarded Air China flight 112 from Hong Kong to Beijing. . . . Not only was he sick, he also happened to be a super-spreader of the disease. From his seat, 14E, he infected 21 other passengers and crew members."
"By the end of the week, 14 doctors and a nurse at the French Hospital had come down with the illness, and there was panic in the hospital. Whatever this disease was, it did not respond to drugs, and the speed at which it spread and struck down young, healthy medical staff was terrifying."
"As Fan lay critically ill, panic was spreading through the Second Affiliated Hospital. The day he was admitted, other hospital workers were falling sick with the same symptoms. . . . The disease spread relentlessly; within two weeks, 93 hospital staff, patients and relatives had fallen ill." |
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推薦人：香港教育專業人員協會會長張文光
