Open AccessSevere Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): A deadly disease
Author(s) -
Rubeena Hafeez,
Muhammad Aslam,
Shahbaz Aman,
Muhammad Tahir
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
annals of king edward medical university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2079-7192
pISSN - 2079-0694
DOI - 10.21649/akemu.v10i1.1130
Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , disease , intensive care medicine , middle east respiratory syndrome , public health , respiratory system , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , pathology
SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome is a term used to describe a serious respiratory illness, which has recently been reported in parts of the world and has spread widely over the past G months. At this moment, public health authorities, physicians and scientists around the world are struggling to cope with this rapidly spreading multicountry outbreak of an unexplained new disease in humans. This appears to be the first severe and easily transmissible disease to emerge in the 21st century. Though much about the syndrome remains poorly understood, including the exact identity of the causative virus, the indications are that the outbreak is otherwise being contained.