Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was found in the early 2003 which is believed to be a form of pneumonia and caused by a coronavirus. Scientists assume that the virus started from Guangdong China, infecting people who picked up virus droplets from cat-like mammals called civets. 8098 people worldwide had contracted SARS ,and 774 cases of death where reported in over thirty countries in five different continents. This essay represents the causes, symptoms, treatment , and prevention from
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, commonly known as SARS, first came onto the scene in November 2002 in mainland China. The respiratory disease is characterized by fever and coughing much like flu. While at first the etiological agent was unknown, through persistent research scientists discovered it to be a coronavirus. This causative agent created history because it was the first time it has ever been found in the human population. This coronavirus raised many questions for scientists as to
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS for short, is an internationally known epidemic that first broke out in 2002 in southern China. SARS is caused by the SARS coronavirus, or SARS CoV which was genetically proven to have originated from Guangzhou. Guangzhou is the origin of which caused the spread of SARS into other countries. By 2003 SARS became a global disease severely affecting several other countries such as, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Canada, and Singapore. SARS causes numerous respiratory
The Respiratory system is responsible for the breathing process. The breathing process entails inhaling and exhaling air in the body, absorption of oxygen from the air to produce energy, and getting rid of the byproduct of the process which is the carbon dioxide. The respiratory system is divided into two tracts; the upper respiratory tract and the lower respiratory tract. The following organs are a part of the upper respiratory tract: nose, mouth, pharynx and the larynx. While the lower respiratory
SARS( Severe acute respiratory syndrome) Background/Intro/Origins SARS, also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome was first found in Foshan, Guangdong in November of 2002. SARS is a very new and rare disease. SARS was officially recognized as a threat by the World Health Organization in March of 2003. This outbreak was the only one ever recorded of its type, up until the recent Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Scientists recognized SARS as a variation of the coronavirus. In humans, the
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Dana Chapman Weber State University 2015 Epidemiology and Biostatistics HIM 3200 Background information The spread of a virus later to become known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) began in a small providence in South China. The initial case of this deadly virus is thought to have occurred on November 16, 2002. By February 2003 it was officially identified as strain of the Coronavirus (also known in the common cold) called SARS (World Health Organization
SARS is; a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. It is a serious form of pneumonia that is caused by a virus that was discovered in 2003. SARS is caused by a member of the family of Coronavirus, the same family that causes the common cold. It is believed that this epidemic was caused by small mammals in China. When someone with the SARS disease sneezes or coughs, droplets of the infection spray out of their mouths. You can easily catch and spread this virus if you breathe in or even touch these particles
Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is only a recently found human infectious agent, originating in the Middle East (Zaki et al 2012). MERS infections are due to an individual being infected by a coronavirus (CoV), more specifically the MERS-CoV. Corona virus symptoms are typically acute, upper and lower respiratory infections (Tyrell & Myint 1996). MERS like all corona viruses, are spherical or pleomorphic enveloped which contain a single-stranded positive sense RNA (Tyrell & Myint 1996)
the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003. It was the first serious infectious disease of the twenty first century and questions about its origin and treatment greatly outnumbered the answers. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS is a respiratory infection caused by the coronavirus that was thought to have originated in Guangdong China but was not reported until
Kong in 2002-2003, images that spring up would almost invariably be of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, the epidemic known to man as SARS in short. Sharing with us the three-letter acronym (SAR) which was given to us by our leaders in China, this ordeal has left its mark on our city in more ways than one. It had caused a widespread wave of mysophobia and health consciousness among the Hong Kong people, which outlasted the SARS epidemic but is probably slowly waning. It has also raised the awareness