I just got my third SARS-2 test in seven days. Getting nose-raped is not fun.
I thought SARS is the bird flu? Why are you getting tested? ARE YOU SICK..? Went to WIKI...so "use" with grain of salt.
Nasty stuff. Do you have lung issue? Blaming ..bats...again!
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome
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"SARS" redirects here. For other uses, see SARS (disambiguation).
This article is about the 2002–04 respiratory syndrome. For the 2012–13 syndrome, see Middle East respiratory syndrome. For the 2019–20 syndrome, see Coronavirus disease 2019.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS)
Other names Sudden acute respiratory syndrome[1]
SARS virion.gif
Electron micrograph of SARS coronavirus virion
Pronunciation
SARS /sÉ‘Ërz/
Specialty Infectious disease
Symptoms Fever, persistent dry cough, headache, muscle pains, difficulty breathing
Complications Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) with other comorbidities that eventually leads to death
Prevention Hand washing, cough etiquette, avoiding close contact with infected persons, avoiding travel to affected areas[2]
Prognosis 9.5% chance of death (all countries)
Frequency 8,098 cases
Deaths 774 known
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), the first-identified strain of the SARS coronavirus species severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARSr-CoV).
The syndrome caused the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak. In late 2017, Chinese scientists traced the virus through the intermediary of Asian palm civets to cave-dwelling horseshoe bats in Yunnan.[3]
SARS was a relatively rare disease;
at the end of the epidemic in June 2003, the incidence was 8,422 cases with a case fatality rate (CFR) of 11%.[4]
No cases of SARS-CoV have been reported worldwide since 2004.[5]
In 2019, the related virus strain severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was discovered.[6] This new strain causes COVID-19, a disease which brought about the COVID-19 pandemic.[7]
