As of May 23, medical professionals accounted for 40 % of the 1500-plus suspected and probable SARS cases. That figure increases to nearly 90 % when you add in persons infected in hospitals as a result of working as janitorial staff, providing private nursing services, coming for treatment, or visiting an inpatient.
截至五月二十三日，在全國總計一千五百多名的 SARS 可能及疑似病例中，醫事人員佔了百分之四十，加上在醫院打掃、看護、就醫或探病卻不幸感染的間接受害者，比例更高達所有病例的百分之九十以上。