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cord-257719-5s6acr7m	Poh Ng, Lisa Fong	The Virus That Changed My World	2003-12-22		.txt	text/plain	1510	74	61	In the three months that Singapore was labelled as a "SARS country" by the World Health Organization (WHO), over 200 cases of SARS were reported, and 33 people died. Referring to the high standards of medical care and the societal measures put in place, Dr David Mansoor of WHO said that if not even Singapore could contain the outbreak, it was going to be very hard for other countries to prevent SARS from spreading (Chua 2003 I was to be part of the diagnostic team, and work began almost immediately. Data obtained from this work were significant for further understanding of coronavirus replication and pathogenesis, but never had I imagined that I would be able to use this knowledge in designing the SARS-CoV diagnostic kit with Roche. The months working on SARS opened my mind, as it did my heart, about the importance of research and of keeping our faith and motivation even in the toughest times.	./cache/cord-257719-5s6acr7m.txt	./txt/cord-257719-5s6acr7m.txt