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The 2003 Hong Kong outbreak of [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] was caused by the [[Severe acute respiratory syndrome|SARS]] pandemic.<ref name="Lam2009" /> An additional study of SARS survivors in Toronto, [[Canada]], found a chronic ''post-SARS syndrome'' similar to [[fibromyalgia]] persisted in many SARS survivors 8 years after the SARS outbreak.<ref name="Moldofsky2011" /> == Onset == The [[SARS-CoV]] virus caused the SARS pandemic of 2002-2003, beginning in China in late 2002, and spreading to Hong Kong in February 2003, then Taiwan, [[Canada]], and several other countries.<ref name="pmc7127710-">{{Cite journal | last = Hui | first = David S.C. | author-link = | last2 = Chan | first2 = Paul K.S. | author-link2 = | date = Sep 2010 | title = Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Coronavirus |url =https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7127710/ | journal = Infectious Disease Clinics of North America | volume = 24 | issue = 3 | pages = 619β638|doi=10.1016/j.idc.2010.04.009|issn=0891-5520|pmc=7127710|pmid=20674795|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last = Hung | first = Lee Shiu | author-link = | date = Aug 2003 | title = The SARS Epidemic in Hong Kong: What Lessons have we Learned? | url = http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014107680309600803 | journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine|language=en | volume = 96 | issue = 8 | pages = 374β378|doi=10.1177/014107680309600803|issn=0141-0768|pmc=|pmid=|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref> The Hong Kong cases were infected at three main sites, the Amoy Gardens housing complex, the Metropole Hotel, and the Prince of Wales Hospital.<ref name="pmc7127710-" /> == Symptoms == The chronic fatigue syndrome outbreak was not identified until Lam et al.'s 2009 follow up of those hospitalized with SARS. Lam et al. found 27.1% of the SARS survivors who had needed to be hospitalized had [[chronic fatigue syndrome]]. == Findings == == Epidemiology == == Prognosis == ==Notable studies== *2011, Chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, depression and disordered sleep in chronic post-SARS syndrome; a case-controlled study<ref name="Moldofsky2011">{{Cite journal | last = Moldofsky | first = Harvey | last2 = Patcai | first2 = John | date = 2011-03-24 | title = Chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, depression and disordered sleep in chronic post-SARS syndrome; a case-controlled study | url = https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-11-37 | journal = BMC Neurology | volume = 11 | issue = 1 | pages = 37|doi=10.1186/1471-2377-11-37|issn=1471-2377|pmc = 3071317|pmid=21435231}}</ref> - [https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-11-37 (Full text)] *2009, Mental Morbidities and Chronic Fatigue in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Survivors: Long-term Follow-up<ref name="Lam2009">{{Cite journal | last = Lam | first = Marco Ho-Bun | last2 = Wing | first2 = Yun-Kwok | last3 = Yu | first3 = Mandy Wai-Man | last4 = Leung | first4 = Chi-Ming | last5 = Ma | first5 = Ronald C.W. | last6 = Kong | first6 = Alice P.S. | last7 = So | first7 = W.Y. | last8 = Fong | first8 = Samson Yat-Yuk | last9 = Lam | first9 = Siu-Ping | date = 2009-12-14 | title = Mental Morbidities and Chronic Fatigue in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Survivors: Long-term Follow-up | url =https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/415378 | journal = Archives of Internal Medicine|language=en | volume = 169 | issue = 22 | pages = 2142β2147|doi=10.1001/archinternmed.2009.384|issn=0003-9926}}</ref> - [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/415378 (Full text)] ==Learn more== == See also == *[[Severe acute respiratory syndrome]] (SARS) *[[chronic fatigue syndrome]] *[[Epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis]] *[[List of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome outbreaks]] == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:History]] [[Category:Outbreaks]] [[Category:Outbreaks in the 2000s]] [[Category:Outbreaks in Hong Kong]]
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