历史今天:2002年第一例非典病例被发现(11.16)

【英文原文】

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS; pronounced /sɑrz/, sarz) is a respiratory disease in humans which is caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). There has been one near pandemic to date, between the months of November 2002 and July 2003, with 8,096 known infected cases and 774 deaths (a case-fatality rate of 9.6%) worldwide being listed in the World Health Organization's (WHO) 21 April 2004 concluding report. Within a matter of weeks in early 2003, SARS spread from the Guangdong province of China to rapidly infect individuals in some 37 countries around the world.

【中文译文】

严重急性呼吸系统综合症（SARS;发音/sɑrz/，sarz）是由SARS冠状病毒引起的呼吸系统疾病。它是迄今为止流行病之一，在世界卫生组织2004年4月21日的总结报告中，2002年11月至2003年7月已有8096个已知的感染病例和774例死亡（病例的病死率9.6％）。在2003年初的短短几个星期内，，非典型肺炎从中国广东省的迅速感染了约37个国家。