En alhoewel de SARS-uitbraak in 2003 bedwongen kon worden, met minder dan 1000 doden, stond de ziekte op het punt om verschillende Oost-Aziatische economieën diep te verstoren, inclusief die van China.
And, though the 2003 SARS outbreak was contained, causing fewer than 1,000 deaths, the disease was on the verge of deeply disrupting several East Asian economies including China’s.