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Wikipedia: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is a respiratory disease in humans which is caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). There has been one near pandemic to date, between the months of November 2002 and July 2003, with 8,096 known infected cases and 774 deaths (a case-fatality rate of 9.6%) worldwide being listed in the World Health Organization's (WHO) 21 April 2004 concluding report. Within a matter of weeks in early 2003, SARS spread from the Guangdong province of China to rapidly infect individuals in some 37 countries around the world.
![[Thermal imaging at Taoyuan Airport's International checkpoint.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Taoyuan_Airport_Thermal_SARS_s.jpg "Thermal imaging at Taoyuan Airport's International checkpoint.")
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![[A SARS-treating hospital in Taiwan.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Sars_hospital_s.jpg "A SARS-treating hospital in Taiwan.")
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