Post-COVID Chronic Fatigue Following First SARS Outbreak (2003)

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Post-COVID Chronic Fatigue Following First SARS Outbreak (2003) • Worldwide 8,098 people from 29 countries were infected and 774 died (9.6%) • In Hong Kong four years after the end of the outbreak, 233 SARS survivors were recruited to participate in a follow-up study of long-term morbidities of SARS

• Mean age was 43 and 70% were female • 27% of these SARS survivors met the CDC 1994 criteria for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Marco Ho-Bun Lam, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(22)2142-7.


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