TCO 6. In April of 2003, health officials in Toronto, Canada'slargest city, started seeing cases of an acute respiratory diseaseof unknown origin. The onset of the disease was sudden and deadly.Dubbed SARS (sudden acute respiratory syndrome), the disease killed30 people in two different outbreak waves. The origins of the viraldisease were unknown for weeks, as was how SARS spread. Even thoughthe victims were clustered in healthcare and elder care facilities,everyone in Toronto, a city of three million people, grewincreasingly anxious and fearful. Conventions and public eventswere cancelled, and people watched each other with suspicion todetect any signs of the illness. Discuss this with respect to theeffects of suggestibility that Myers writes about in Chapter 6. Bespecific as to what aspects of suggestibility apply to thecase.
