SARS — One Year Later

Abstract

It was just over a year ago, in November 2002, that the first case of what was to become known as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was identified in Foshan, Guangdong Province, China. The dramatic spread of SARS in the late winter and spring of 2003 appeared at first to herald the onset of a new infectious disease that would become endemic worldwide. However, almost as quickly as it spread, it was brought under control. As evidenced in this issue of the Journal in a report by Olsen et al. (pages 2416–2422) and a review article by Peiris et . . .