New Virus is Cause for Concern, Caution
... Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, is a newly identified lung infection that originated in China and made its way quickly to other parts of the globe, including Canada and the United States. ...

What is Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)?
... SARS is a new respiratory illness. It is thought to be caused by a virus from a family of viruses called coronaviruses. These viruses are a common cause of upper respiratory illnesses in humans � incl...

Overview
... Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) — a contagious and sometimes fatal respiratory illness — first appeared in China in November 2002. It became the first newly emerged, serious and c...

FDA Issues Guidance on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome to Further Safeguard the Blood Supply
... FDA today issued guidance to the nation's blood establishments on measures for further safeguarding the blood supply against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). FDA is taking this interim me...

Intranasal SARS Vaccine Protects Monkeys from Infection
... A single dose of a test vaccine sprayed into the nose protects monkeys against the SARS virus, according to Alexander Bukreyev, Ph.D., Peter Collins, Ph.D., and coworkers at the National Institute of ...

Mouse Antibodies Thwart SARS Virus
... The mouse immune system develops antibodies capable of single-handedly neutralizing the SARS virus, researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) report in the April...

New Method Enables Researchers to Make Human SARS Antibodies Quickly
... Human antibodies that thwart the SARS virus in mice can be mass-produced quickly using a new laboratory technique developed by an international research team collaborating with the National Institute ...