Infectious Diseases: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Original title: Plague City: SARS in Toronto (TV). Country: Canada. Year: 2005. Director: David Wu. Music: Lawrence Shragge. Photography: David Herrington. Film editor: David Wu. Cast: Kari Matchett, Ron White, Rick Roberts, Lannette New, Rahnuma Panthaky, Merwin Mondesir, Brian Markinson, James Gallanders, Leslie Carlson, Alina Lee, Grace Lynn Kung, James McGowan, Grahame Wood, David Dunbar, Alexandra Castillo,... Color: Color. Rumtime: 89 minutes. Genre: Drama, History. Language: English. Productions Companies: Canada Television and Cable Production Fund License Program (CTCPF), Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Canadian Television (CTV), Canadian Television Fund, Government of Ontario: Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit Program, Lions Gate Television, National Bank of Canada TV and Motion Picture Group, Slanted Wheel Entertainment, Telefilm Canada Equity Investment Program. Synopsis: “In 2003, the Canadian city of Toronto was about to become the center of the first pandemic of the century. A doctor and several nurses made the alarm when they began arriving patients with symptoms of a mysterious and deadly virus. In total, there were 432 cases with 44 deaths. Dedicated to health workers in the city of Toronto, this telefilm remember the panic caused in Canada after the diagnosis of many cases of atypical pneumonia dubbed SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) ” (FILMAFFINITY). Links: Plaga en la ciudad (TV). Available from: http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film213991.html Plague City: SARS in Toronto (2005). Available from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439763/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5 Action: 2003 [Guangdong, Hong Kong (China), Toronto (Canada), Geneva (Switzerland)].