 | SARS Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada Subjects: Health risk communication -- Canada; Communicable diseases -- Risk factors -- Canada; SARS (Disease) -- Ontario -- Toronto; SARS (Disease) -- Risk factors -- Canada; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was the first global pandemic of the twenty-first century, spreading within weeks from southern China to over thirty-seven countries around the world. In Canada intense news media coverage had a profound impact on how the disease was perceived, with frontline health care workers, despite their heroic efforts, stigmatized due to their contact with patients. Michael G. Tyshenko is a McLaughlin Chair in Science Health Policy at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. Cathy Paterson is a registered nurse clinician who in 2003 worked at North York General Hospital - the epicentre of the SARS |
