SARS
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in southern China caused an eventual 8,098 cases, resulting in 774 deaths reported in 17 countries.
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See also
- Timeline of the SARS outbreak – Worldwide outbreak of SARS between 2002–2004
- List of medical professionals who died during the SARS outbreak
- MERS-CoV – Coronavirus discovered in June 2012 in Saudi Arabia
- 2019-nCoV – Coronavirus discovered in December 2019 in Wuhan
- Bird flu
- Health crisis
- Jiang Yanyong
- Zhong Nanshan
- Carlo Urbani
- Public health in the People's Republic of China
- SARS conspiracy theory
- Super-spreader
- Bat-borne virus
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