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  1. Coronaviruses. The 2002–2004 outbreak of SARS, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), infected over 8,000 people from 30 countries and territories, and resulted in at least 774 deaths worldwide. [1] The outbreak was first identified in Foshan, Guangdong, China, in November 2002. [2]

  2. SARS: Key Events. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was first discovered in Asia in February 2003. The outbreak lasted approximately six months as the disease spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia before it was stopped in July 2003.

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  4. About CDC. In the 2003 global disease outbreak, what became known as SARS-CoV started as a mystery illness—without name, origin, or cure. Public health scientists across the globe scrambled to understand and contain this health threat. CDC began working with the World Health Organization (WHO) in late February to investigate and confirm ...

  5. The SARS outbreak of 2003. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a total of 8,098 people worldwide became sick with SARS during the 2003 outbreak. Of these, 774 died. In the United States, only eight people had laboratory evidence of SARS-CoV infection. All of these people had traveled to other parts of the world where SARS was ...

  6. SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS) The multi country epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and the first half of 2003 was the first emerging disease epidemic of the 21 st century. SARS was transmitted rapidly around the globe, mainly though air travel. During the early

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