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What exactly is sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and what willit do?
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Novel coronavirus : SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome was an explosive outbreak of adult respiratory distress syndrome that started in Hong Kong in 2003. Within weeks of the outbreak it was determined that SARS was caused by a novel coronavirus. It was found that this virus infected civets and horseshoe bats which were the zoonotic natural reservoirs.
Answered 5/18/2020
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SARS: The 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is theorized to have begun in Chinese Horseshoe bats (genus Rhinolophus) acting as reservoir with the masked palm civets(Paguma larvata)being the intermediate host spreading SARS CoV virus. REF: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17848070. It caused significant respiratory problems and deaths before the virus died out.
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