Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Name(s):
SARS
Nature
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1, the first identified strain of the SARS-related coronavirus. The first known cases occurred in November 2002, and the syndrome caused the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak. In the 2010s, Chinese scientists traced the virus through the intermediary of Asian palm civets to cave-dwelling horseshoe bats in Xiyang Yi Ethnic Township, Yunnan.
SARS was a relatively rare disease; at the end of the epidemic in June 2003, the incidence was 8,469 cases with a case fatality rate (CFR) of 11%. No cases of SARS-CoV-1 have been reported worldwide since 2004.
In December 2019, a second strain of SARS-CoV was identified: SARS-CoV-2. This strain causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease behind the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: Wikipedia
Background
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a newly recognized clinical disease that has become a major threat to global public health. The disease first appeared in the Guangdong province in China in November 2002. By April 2003, 3,861 cases with 217 deaths in 25 countries were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). On 5 July, WHO announced that all known person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV had ceased.
Type
(G) Very specific problems