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In January 2003, epidemiologists in China identified two cases of "atypical pneumonia" in patients who had visited health care workers in Guangdong province. Teams initiated contact tracing and ...

Countries have began evacuating their citizens from the Chinese city hardest-hit by the coronavirus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS. The number of ...

Here's some background information about SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome. Since 2004, there have been no known cases of SARS reported anywhere in the world. General Information: SARS is an ...