QUICK FACTS
Milestone: First person infected with SARS
Date: Nov. 16, 2002
Where: Foshan, China
Who: A food handler
In January 2003, epidemiologists in China identified two cases of "atypical pneumonia" in patients who had visited health care workers in Guangdong province. Teams initiated contact tracing and eventually discovered that the germ responsible for the illnesses had been circulating since a patient fell ill Nov. 16, 2002.
