Trade impact of SARS. (New Business).The SARS epidemic epidemic, outbreak of disease that affects a much greater number of people than is usual for the locality or that spreads to regions where it is ordinarily not present. , which has shut down airports, restricted travel to the Far East and led Russia to consider closing its border with China, may have a positive financial impact on Mexico's maquiladora ma·qui·la·do·ra n. An assembly plant in Mexico, especially one along the border between the United States and Mexico, to which foreign materials and parts are shipped and from which the finished product is returned to the original market. industry. More than 400 people, mostly in Asia, have died from SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Definition Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the first emergent and highly transmissible viral disease to appear during the twenty-first century. . It has wreaked economic havoc on the Far East, as Westerners have cancelled trips to Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. . Low-end Mexican exporters, who have lost business to their Chinese and Vietnamese counterparts over the past few years, have reported increased orders from U.S. importers, as worries of the spread of SARS flourish. |
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