Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

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 interconnected world. Within a few months, the SARS virus had spread from China, to worldwide, just by travelers.
The first recorded occurrence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome was on November 16, 2002, in the Guangdong Province, China. By February 2003 the Chinese health officials had tracked more than three-hundred cases and five deaths. There has not been a recorded occurrence of SARS since 2004 as of 2014.
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If a doctor believes a patient has SARS, samples of the test ran will be forwarded to the state and local health department and/or the CDC for coronavirus antibody testing. If you have flu-like symptoms and fever after traveling you should see a doctor right away.
Someone can catch this disease if they are near someone who has this disease. If the sick person coughs, sneezes, or talk and the well person breaths in the air, because this disease spreads like most other respiratory diseases. This disease is not completely preventable, if someone has SARS they will be quarantined, to try to prevent the spread. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is not treatable. A cure or vaccine has not been invented, yet. No therapy has been affective; only supportive therapy can be provided. Medications such as Corticosteroids and Ribourin have been used to treat SARS but none can