News

In early March 2003, in reports buried under headlines that described preparations   for war, Americans began to learn about an apparently new respiratory infection   spreading from the Far East. As news of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or   SARS, moved to the front pages, we learned about the immense effort of scientists   around the world to track the disease, establish diagnostic criteria and a mechanism   of contagion, determine a cause, develop diagnostic tests, and investigate possible   treatments.