Clinical status and its associated early warning per emerging infectious respiratory disease in China

In the past ten years, we had experienced a series of .emerging severe acute respiratory infections （SARI）.Some of them became serious public health emergent events, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome （SARS） and novel A/H7N9 avian influenza. Tracing back to 2003, SARS originated from Guangdong province and spread to 29 countries and regions until it was completely controlled. Out of 8 096 probable SARS cases world-wide, 774 patients died; the mortality was 9.6%.1 There were 5 327 patients with SARS in China, and 1 002 （19%） of them were health care workers （HCW）. Nearly all the HCW got hospital acquired infection since there was no efficient preventive and protective system.