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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1, the first identified strain of the SARS-related coronavirus. [3] The first known cases occurred in November 2002, and the syndrome caused the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak .
In Toronto, three more people died of SARS, bringing the Canadian death toll to 13. On 16 April, the WHO issued a press release stating that the coronavirus identified by a number of laboratories was the official cause of SARS. The virus was officially named the SARS virus. [56] On 17 April, the first confirmed case of SARS from India was reported.
Scanning electron micrograph of SARS virions. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-1. It causes an often severe illness and is marked initially by systemic symptoms of muscle pain, headache, and fever, followed in 2–14 days by the onset of respiratory symptoms, [13] mainly cough, dyspnea, and pneumonia.
This is a list of notable people reported as having died either from coronavirus disease 2019 or post COVID-19 , as a result of infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID-19 pandemic.
SARS‑CoV‑2 is a strain of the species Betacoronavirus pandemicum (SARSr-CoV), as is SARS-CoV-1, the virus that caused the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak. [ 2 ] [ 17 ] There are animal-borne coronavirus strains more closely related to SARS-CoV-2, the most closely known relative being the BANAL-52 bat coronavirus.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome / SARS: 774 [234] 2003–2019 Asia and Egypt avian influenza epidemic 2003–2019 China, Southeast Asia and Egypt: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1: 455 [235] 2004 Indonesia dengue epidemic 2004 Indonesia: Dengue fever: 658 [236] 2004 Sudan Ebola outbreak 2004 Sudan: Ebola: 7 [237] 2004–2005 Angola Marburg ...
SARS-related coronavirus is a member of the genus Betacoronavirus (group 2) and monotypic of the subgenus Sarbecovirus (subgroup B). [13] Sarbecoviruses, unlike embecoviruses or alphacoronaviruses, have only one papain-like proteinase (PLpro) instead of two in the open reading frame ORF1ab. [14]
Place of death Date of death Carlo Urbani: Doctor: World Health Organization: Bangkok: 29 March 2003 Lin Yung-hsiang (林永祥) Doctor: Department of Internal Medicine, Kaoshiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital: Kaohsiung: 16 May 2003 [1] Chen Ching-chiu (陳靜秋) Head nurse: Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital: Taipei: 1 May 2003 [2] Chen-lü Li ...