Alberta woman reflects on 10 days in Chinese quarantine amid 2003 SARS outbreak
As the world grapples with an outbreak of coronavirus, a St. Albert woman says it's stirring up memories of her brush with another deadly illness that fuelled global panic in 2003. Kate Gale worked in China for more than 10 years, but it was a span of 10 days in April 2003 that altered her life forever. SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, had already killed 103 people in 17 countries but there were no signs of it at Shenzhen Polytechnic, Gale's university. At the height of an outbreak of
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