Materia Medica Malaysiana

SARS cost Malaysia $3 billion

According to this report - Economic losses from SARS - quoting the Asian Development Bank :

Singapore lost some $8 billion in business revenue; South Korea, $6.1 billion; Taiwan, $4.6 billion; Thailand, $4.5 billion; Malaysia, $3 billion and Indonesia, $1.9 billion. Vietnam lost only $400 million.
China and Hong Kong, which were hit the worst, lost $17.9 billion and $12 billion in business revenue, respectively.