2003 Hong Kong outbreak
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The 2003 Hong Kong outbreak of chronic fatigue syndrome was caused by the SARS pandemic.[1] An additional study of SARS survivors in Toronto, Canada, found a chronic fibromyalgia-like illness persisted in many SARS survivors.[2]
Onset[edit | edit source]
The SARS pandemic of 2003 began in China, spreading to Hong Kong, Canada, and many other countries.[3]
Symptoms[edit | edit source]
Findings[edit | edit source]
Epidemiology[edit | edit source]
Prognosis[edit | edit source]
Notable studies[edit | edit source]
- 2011, Chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, depression and disordered sleep in chronic post-SARS syndrome; a case-controlled study[2]
- 2009, Mental Morbidities and Chronic Fatigue in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Survivors: Long-term Follow-up[1] - (Full text)
Learn more[edit | edit source]
See also[edit | edit source]
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- Epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis
- List of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome outbreaks
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lam, Marco Ho-Bun; Wing, Yun-Kwok; Yu, Mandy Wai-Man; Leung, Chi-Ming; Ma, Ronald C. W.; Kong, Alice P. S.; So, W. Y.; Fong, Samson Yat-Yuk; Lam, Siu-Ping (December 14, 2009). "Mental Morbidities and Chronic Fatigue in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Survivors: Long-term Follow-up". Archives of Internal Medicine. 169 (22): 2142–2147. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2009.384. ISSN 0003-9926.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Moldofsky, Harvey; Patcai, John (March 24, 2011). "Chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, depression and disordered sleep in chronic post-SARS syndrome; a case-controlled study". BMC Neurology. 11 (1): 37. doi:10.1186/1471-2377-11-37. ISSN 1471-2377. PMC 3071317. PMID 21435231.
- ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7127710/
