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SARS pandemic

Susan Sorrenti, an ICU nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, nearly died from SARS back in 2003. She says she feels empathy for the nurses in Texas who contracted Ebola from treating a sick patient.

The US Ebola cases remind Toronto healthcare workers of their SARS outbreak in 2003

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In 2003, when SARS broke out in Toronto, many doctors and nurses got sick and died from the disease. “I think we lost control of it in Canada,” says one Canadian nurse. “We should learn from that moment and be prepared.”