A species of CORONAVIRUS causing atypical respiratory disease (SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME) in humans. The organism is believed to have first emerged in Guangdong Province, China, in 2002. The natural host is the Chinese horseshoe bat, RHINOLOPHUS sinicus.
    

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Pandemic - a horizon guide.

SARS / Joaquima Serradell ; consulting editor, the late I. Edward Alcamo ; foreword by David Heymann.

Twenty-first century plague : the story of SARS / Thomas Abraham.

SARS.

China syndrome : the true story of the 21st century's first great epidemic / Karl Taro Greenfeld.

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Pandemic - a horizon guide.

SARS / Joaquima Serradell ; consulting editor, the late I. Edward Alcamo ; foreword by David Heymann.

Twenty-first century plague : the story of SARS / Thomas Abraham.

SARS.

China syndrome : the true story of the 21st century's first great epidemic / Karl Taro Greenfeld.