Different means to the same end: A comparative contingency analyses of Singapore and China’s management of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis

• Main Authors: JIN, Yan, PANG, Augustine, CAMERON, Glen T.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Business and Corporate Communications; Health Communication; Medicine and Health Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6033; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7032/viewcontent/Different_means_to_the_same_end.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

For months in 2003, the world lay under siege by a strain of virus that masqueraded as pneumonia but inflicted a far more lethal effect. By all accounts, the mystery of how the severe respiratory acute syndrome (SARS) virus came to be has remained largely unsolved (Bradsher & Altman 2003). What began as routine fever and cough in a Chinese physician, later identified as a super-carrier, rapidly spread to people who had cursory contacts with him, spiralling into a worldwide crisis that spanned Asia and the North Americas (Rosenthal 2003).