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    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

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    SARS is known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. SARS is caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). There is no known vaccine for SARS; however, most people can recover from SARS or even maintain the disease with the help of therapy and advanced machines. SARS had broken out in 2003 at this time no one knew what SARS even was, Scientist had begun doing everything to figure out the cause of this odd disease. CDC (Centers for Disease Control) paired with WHO (World Health Organization) to determine

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    What is SARS? Severe acute respiratory syndrome or in short SARS is a member of the coronavirus family of viruses, it is considered to be a life threatening form of pneumonia. How Can You Get Infected? When an individual that is infected with SARS sneezes or coughs, infected droplets of fluid spray into the air. If you then inhale or come in contact with the infected fluid it may be transmitted to you. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, “The SARS virus may live on hands, tissues

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    Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an extremely rare, deleterious disease caused by a type of viral pathogen called a coronavirus. The disease first appeared among residents of southern China, near Hong Kong, in 2002. Over the course of eight months, the disease spread to up to 8,000 individuals, 10% of which died. As a contagious viral pandemic, SARS diffused to nearly 30 countries by 2003, including Germany, Canada, and the United States. However, by 2004, all cases of SARS disappeared

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    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

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    The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a respiratory disease caused by the SARS coronavirus, hit Hong Kong severely between February and July 2003. SARS was a new type of viral infection first recorded in China in November 2002. Capable of transmitting through direct contact with infectious respiratory droplets, the disease spread rapidly across Hong Kong when an infected doctor visited and died in Hong Kong on 23rd February, 2003. The outbreak of SARS, the first deadly epidemic of the 21st

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    SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral disease. Its cause is the coronavirus, and it has been a pandemic infection in the past (Thiel, 2007). While SARS has not been completely eradicated, the last confirmed infection was in 2004 and was laboratory induced (Thiel, 2007). The last confirmed, naturally-occurring case was in 2003 at the end of an outbreak (Smith, 2006; Blendon, 2003). There were few SARS-related deaths in the United States, but there were numerous infections. All

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    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

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    person and inconvenient syndrome. Pathology is a science that study diseases and classified different types of diseases called "NOSOLOGY". There are a lot of diseases around the world that affect different parts of the human body such as SARS disease. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a disease caused by SARS virus it called sometimes "CORONA" that has many syndromes, spread easily, and has too many ways to protect. The patient can be influenced by SARS disease’s syndrome that looks like influenza's

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    SARS, also known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, caused a major epidemic in 2002-2003. The virus had originated in the middle east area from a mammal group handled and bred in the first effect area. The virus had developed and was transmitted to the people handling the animals. The handlers would contract the virus and then would spread it to others around them. The disease was able to be transferred or passed on to others by means of close contact and or the air. The virus itself was not noticeable

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