Report on SARS

Research Report: SARS and It’s Effects on the World

Beginning February 2003, newspaper and other media sources began reporting a rapid spreading of this unknown disease known as SARS. Cases were arising from areas all around the world and several people, even in Ontario, were to be quarantined. When I first began to hear these reports, I naively didn’t think it would affect my life. Little did I know that I would be sent home from my co-op at the Emergency Ward of Victoria Hospital one Friday afternoon with the possibility of not receiving my co-op credits or graduating. Also, my English fieldtrip to Toronto to watch the play of Hamlet was cancelled. And who would have thought that at my part-time job at Pharma-Plus, I would be receiving phone calls and inquiries about facemasks and antibacterial hand creams so people could protect themselves from SARS? My point is that the whole world is affected by this illness. The Rolling Stones along with many other bands had to...