On March 25, 2003 (February 23, 2003 in the lunar calendar), head nurse Ye Xin contracted the virus while taking care of SARS patients and died in the line of duty. Ye Xin was born on July 9, 1956 in a medical family in Xuwen, Guangdong. In 1974, he was recruited into the Health Training Team of Guangdong Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. When he graduated in 1976, he was detained to work in the hospital because he scored among the best in the nursing ability test. In 1983, he was promoted to the head nurse of the emergency department of Guangdong Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and he was the youngest head nurse in the hospital. Around the Spring Festival of 2003, an atypical pneumonia with unknown etiology began to spread in some areas of Guangzhou. Just after early February, the Ersha Emergency Department of Guangdong Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine began to treat patients diagnosed or suspected of SARS, with a maximum of 5 patients per day. With the sharp increase in the number of SARS patients, Guangdong Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine made a decisive decision and urgently dispatched some nurses from the emergency department of Ersha Branch to reinforce the hospital headquarters located in the city center. There is an obvious shortage of nurses in the emergency department of Ersha. Ye Xin took the lead and started working overtime on February 8. At noon on March 4, Ye Xin, who was extremely tired, began to develop fever symptoms and was later diagnosed with atypical pneumonia. At 1:30 a.m. on March 25, 2003, less than a week after the patient Ye Xin finally rescued and who infected her with SARS was discharged from the hospital, Ye Xin left the position she loved forever. Comrades and relatives, aged 47.