Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a type of lung disease. That is a medical condition caused by a virus that the destruction of alveoli in the lungs,than causing swelling and fibrosis in the lung tissue and impede the work of the air sacs and prevents oxygen from reaching the blood. SARS is attached with flu-like syndrome, is viruses called the SARS-CoV which forward into pneumonia and from time to time the disease caused to death many people. The history of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was first appearance in 2002 in Asia. In the beginning of July 2003 a total of 8,437 people worldwide had become ill with SARS, leading to 813 deaths. This essay present a definition of SARS based on its Cause, Symptoms and Treatment. Strain of coronavirus is the main cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome. SARS often spread readily through health-care facilities ,the air, via coughing and sneezing. During the outbreak, one in about every 20 infected people was a health-care worker who cared for a patient with SARS; nearly 2,000 health-care worker become ill. “The main way that SARS seems to spread is by close person-to-person contact” .This cause is a clear view about the probability of having severe acute respiratory…
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, also known as SARS, is an infectious disease, and was the first emergent and highly transmittable viral disease to appear in the twenty-first century. An infectious disease is a disease caused by organism. At this time SARS is very rare, but in 2002 it was common for anyone who traveled. There was no specific age group of people who were more affected by this disease. The SARS outbreak in 2002-2003 showed how quickly infection can spread in a highly mobile and…
SARS Outbreak Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases have become a burden to the public health system around the world and kill more people than any other single cause (Arias, 2010). With the heightened economic interdependence of countries and increased travel around the world, the emergence of new infections and reemergence of the ones that have occurred before continues to pose a public health challenge. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome…
SARS is known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. SARS is caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). There is no known vaccine for SARS; however, most people can recover from SARS or even maintain the disease with the help of therapy and advanced machines. We may never know for certain where the SARS virus came from, but it likely moved from animals to humans. Lab research shows that SARS can infect a lot of animals, including palm civets that live in China where the 2003 outbreak originated.…
Coronavirus comes from the family of coronaviridae, they are pathogens found in birds and mammals. Coronaviruses is a positive sense RNA virus and it was classified into four genera: Alphacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus, Gammacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus. There are many human types of the virus, for example, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV. SARS-CoV is a Severe acute respiratory syndrome. The Severe acute respiratory was found in 2003 when it first hit China and caused a big outbreak. Studies have shown…
This viral respiratory illness is a subset of the Coronaviridae family, SARS-CoV (Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). The initial outbreak of this new subset began in November 2002 in southern China and spread to another 33 countries around the world. This virus infected approximately over 8,000 people before it was brought under control in July of 2003; killing over 700 people during this period (Wang et al., 2006). From late 2003 to early 2004 another outbreak occurred in the…
Barnack Samuel May 03 2015 Essay on my research of SARS In the year 2002, the disease SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) ravaged the modern world, spreading via airlines and other means of worldwide transportation. From my seventh grade biology class in the year 2011, I learned much about SARS. Below is what I knew before further research. In 2002, SARS appeared in China. It soon used international airports and cargo shipments to spread across the rest of the modern world. Because of…
Abstract This paper investigates the origins, human-to-human transmission and the physiological changes in humans due to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Research shows that these two coronaviruses are both deadly and severe their diseases are. They both have caused assorted respiratory difficulties including pneumonia, organ dysfunction, bronchitis,cough and fever, and deficiency of breath. SARS and MERS are very…
In the spring and summer of 2003 the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis was a global concern. SARS had significant impact in a number of countries and areas. It directly affected Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Toronto. These countries and areas were most directly affected from the SARS outbreaks, although indirect effects of this disease were felt worldwide. The effects were not only felt in the public health and medical systems, but in the economic and political…
The death of an elderly man on a flight from Beijing to Brisbane has been brought to our attention, as it appears the death was the result of an infectious disease, which we believe may have been ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome’ (SARS). SARS is a respiratory illness produced by a coronavirus, called ‘SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). It was first identified in 2002 in southern China, which resulted in an epidemic in 37 countries, with more than 8000 cases and 774 deaths. The epidemic…