2002 SARS-CoV Pandemic

Question 1

How many countries and people were affected by the 2002 pandemic?

Answer 1

29 and 8,000, respectively.

Question 2

What was considered to be the culprit for the outbreak? What was likely the actual culprit?

Answer 2

a. Civets.
b. Horseshoe bats.

Question 3

Why was the approach to culling civets (drowning them) ill-suited to preventing viral prevention?

Answer 3

It led to close contact with bodily fluids.
*Led to false sense of security that the virus had been defeated.

Question 4

What should the real focus have been in attempting to mitigate the SARS-CoV outbreak?

Answer 4

Preventing human-human transmission.