Epidemiology of Severe Acute Respiratory

Syndrome (SARS)

In Malaysia, the outbreak resulted is two deaths due to the probability of SARS in Jerantut, Pahang and Penang. The victim who involved with history has ever visited China or Singapore. Table below shows the total number of cases includes those who've recovered or died. This Table shows the incidence of SARS in Malaysia since WHO records began on April to May 2003.

MALAYSIA

Infection Mortality Recovered Reclassified

8 2 5 2

SARS epidemic has believe start from Guangdong, China. Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore and Taiwan are the most Asian country have been effect by this syndrome.

“Figure 1.Epidemic curve, Hong Kong.”

ASIA

CountryCumulative number of

case(s)Number of

deathsCase fatality

ratio (%)

China   5327 349 7

Hong Kong   1755 299 17

India   3 0 0

Indonesia   2 0 0

Kuwait   1 0 0

Macao   1 0 0

MALAYSIA*   5 2 40

Mongolia   9 0 0

Philippines   14 2 14

Republic of Korea  

3 0 0

Singapore   238 33 14

Taiwan   346 37 11

Thailand   9 2 22

Vietnam   63 5 8Table 2 .The official number of SARS cases reported from Asian countries over the time period November 1, 2002 to July 31, 2003

SARS began spreading around the world along international air travel routes to North America and a few country in Europe. Among the most effected country is Canada with 251 cases.

Table 3 .The official number of SARS cases reported from countries over the time period November 1, 2002

to July 31, 2003

WORLDWIDE

CountryCumulative number of

case(s)Number of

deathsCase fatality

ratio (%)

Australia   6 0 0

Canada   251 43 17

France   7 1 14

Germany   9 0 0

Italy   4 0 0

New Zealand   1 0 0

Republic of Ireland  

1 0 0

Romania   1 0 0

Russian Federation  

1 0 0

South Africa   1 1 100

Spain   1 0 0

Sweden   5 0 0

Switzerland   1 0 0

United Kingdom  

4 0 0

United States   29 0 9

Total   8098 774 9.6