Severe Acute REspiratory Syndrome SARS

A fairly new illness that has been emerging in various places around the world, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, also known as SARS is a virus which causes the lungs to hemorrhage and bleed. Cases of this virus have been seen in the U.S., China, Canada, and other countries. The virus seems not to hit the young and old but the middle aged, around fifty or so. It was also odd how the virus victims did not seem to have any previous health problems.

SARS is accompanied with high fever, headache, sore throat, dry cough, muscular stiffness. It spreads through droplets from sneezing or coughing; contact with contaminated objects. People who are frequent travelers and have visited the infected places or those in contact with anyone infected are at risk to get SARS. There is no known cure for SARS as yet. While doctors and researchers are grappling with the problem trying to work out an effective medicine. Presently the patients are treated symptomatically with antibiotics and steroids. To...