Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Sars; Sars/severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

"SARS" redirects here. For other uses, see SARS (disambiguation). Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (Traditional Chinese: 嚴重急性呼吸道綜合症; Simplified Chinese: 严重急性呼吸道综合症 or simply Chinese: 非典型肺炎) was an atypical pneumonia that first appeared in November 2002 in Guangdong Province, in the city of Foshan, of the People's Republic of China. The disease was known to be caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS CoV), a novel coronavirus. It was ...