Community response
Fear of contracting the virus from consuming infected wild animals resulted in public bans and reduced business for meat markets throughout southern China and Hong Kong.[37] In China, Cantonese foodways, which often incorporate a wide range of meat sources, were frequently indicted as an important contributing factor to the origins of the SARS outbreak.Toronto’s Asian minority population faced increased discrimination over the course of the city’s outbreak. Local advocacy groups reported Asians being passed over by real-estate agents and taxi drivers and shunned on public transportation.[38] In Boston and New York City, rumors and April Fools pranks gone awry resulted in an atmosphere of fear and substantial economic loss in the cities’ Chinatowns.
See also
- 2009 flu pandemic
- Bird flu
- MERS-CoV – Coronavirus discovered in June 2012 in Saudi Arabia
- Health crisis
- Jiang Yanyong
- Zhong Nanshan
- Carlo Urbani
- Public health in the People's Republic of China
- SARS conspiracy theory
- Super-spreader
- Progress of the SARS outbreak
- Bat-borne virus
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