SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome




SARS or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is a disease that belongs to the very same family of the coronavirus. Much like COVID-19, it had a pandemic of it’s own in 2003. Around 8000 cases being reported worldwide and a 774 total death toll. But SARS is not as deadly as the coronavirus due to a couple of factors including:

- It couldn’t survive on surfaces for as long as the coronavirus.
- It faded away from the body eventually.
- People with a good respiratory system were not effected as much.





SARS originated in Foshan, China in a wet market where a host carrying the disease must have been either touched or consumed by a human then further transmitting it into the population.

When the first patient with SARS ended up in a hospital. The doctors thought it was pneumonia because both the symptoms seemed similar. But when the treatment for pneumonia did not heal the patient, the doctors reported it as ‘atypical pneumonia’ and only after around 18-20 deaths were reported was SARS officially reported to the world. 

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