Centre To The Storm, A: Front-line Notes On The Sars Outbreak In Singapore

by Poh Lian Lim

Overview

In 2003, a US-trained Malaysian infectious disease doctor moved from Seattle to Singapore with her husband and young family. She started work 3 weeks before the first SARS patient was admitted to the hospital which became Ground Zero for SARS in Singapore. This is a firsthand account of her experiences as a frontline doctor in a terrifying outbreak as a completely new virus swept through Singapore.This book tells the story of the healthcare workers and patients caught up in the SARS outbreak in Singapore, and distills medical and public insights from hard-won experience fighting a completely unknown virus, and successfully shutting down the first pandemic of the 21st century despite having no effective vaccines or antiviral medications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811227752
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/30/2026
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Index of a Tragedy; How SARS Started in Singapore; The Story of E; Caught on the First Wave; The Challenge of Characterizing a Novel Pathogen; The Story of Dr H; Super-spreader; Isolation and Cohorting, Death Certificates; A Mother-Daughter Story; Taxi, Taxi; Contact Tracing and Quarantine, Ethical Challenges; The Story of the Cabbie Who Didn't Know; Everything But the Kitchen Sink; Treatment: Ribavirin, Steroids, Convalescent Serum; A Story of Hope Deferred; Fear, Forwarding and Escape; Spread to SGH, NUH, the Prime Minister's Letter; The Story of Dr A; Pasir Panjang; Leadership, Command and Control, Communication; A Story of Mice and Men; The Outbreak Ends; Research, Publications and Politics; The Story of Dr L; Lab Accident; Vero E6 Cells, West Nile Virus and WHO Investigations; The Story of a Vial; A Center to the Storm; Helicopters, Storm Crows, and the Stigma of SARS; My Story; How SARS Prepared Singapore for COVID-19