The virus that caused the original Sars no longer haunts us, but the characteristics of today’s coronavirus mean it’s unlikely to disappear in the same way.

COVID-19 and SARS are both deadly – but different. SARS symptoms were quick to appear, making it easier to contain. Because health officials were able to contain it, the virus died off.

Scientists quickly sequenced the virus and realized it had never been seen before. It's most closely related to a bat coronavirus and a first cousin with the SARS virus , which infected nearly ...

The SARS virus appears to spread primarily in droplets expelled when an infected person sneezes or coughs. But when 321 people became infected in the Block E building in the Amoy Gardens apartment ...

A SARS-like virus found in Chinese horseshoe bats may be poised to infect humans without the need for adaptation, overcoming an initial barrier that could potentially set the stage for an outbreak ...

The SARS-like virus can infect cells from multiple species, researchers say. Dec. 12, 2012— -- The SARS-like coronavirus that has killed five people and sickened four more has some important ...

SARS is relevant now, 17 years later, as the world faces another deadly virus — the novel coronavirus now called COVID-19, which has infected at least 75,000 people, and killed more than 2,100.

SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) are serious infectious respiratory diseases that are caused by members of a class of viruses known as coronaviruses ...

According to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can live in the air and on surfaces between several hours and several days.The ...

It’s possible that a very closely related Sars-like virus could emerge in the not-too-distant future. Of course, this is what happened in late 2019, when SARS-CoV-2 jumped into humans.