SINGAPORE (Reuters) - As fears grow about whether a new dangerous strain of swine flu will develop into a global pandemic and affect economies, Asia can look to the 2003 SARS epidemic for pointers on ...

So far, the U.S. has been lucky. It has been nearly six months since the SARS outbreak emerged and more than six weeks since the illness spread from its birthplace in southern China to put the world ...

Horseshoe bats are the primary host for the ancestor of the viruses that caused both the 2002 SARS outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new study suggests that the wildlife trade transported the ...

Here's some background information about SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome. Since 2004, there have been no known cases of SARS reported anywhere in the world. SARS is an acute viral respiratory ...

The initial spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 might have been accelerated by the wildlife trade, similar to what happened with the SARS outbreak in 2002, according to a study by UC San Diego ...

Countries have began evacuating their citizens from the Chinese city hardest-hit by the coronavirus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS. The number of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Despite its high current death rate, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that emerged in Saudi Arabia last year is unlikely to cause a SARS-like epidemic because it is not ...