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...What is SARS? According to WHO, SARS is a virus that affects the respiratory tract (lungs), causing a dry cough, shortness of breath, stiffness, fever, loss of appetite and malaise. The symptoms are very similar to those associated with the flu, except that SARS can appear as pneumonia in chest x-rays...
...illness usually begins with a fever of 100.4ºF or higher (sometimes with chills), headache, body aches and malaise. Patients develop a dry cough and difficulty breathing; some get diarrhea. Most people start to recover after five or six days...
Most cases seem to be passed on through direct, close contact. When people sneeze or cough, they send virus-laden droplets of fluid into the air, which others nearby inhale. SARS may also be spread through water or sewage or contaminated objects like doorknobs...
...outside the city. In Canada, hospitals have closed to control the disease's spread, and health officials everywhere are looking hard at anyone who flies in from Asia and quarantining those with symptoms of infection--a fever of 100.4°F or higher, headaches and body aches, a dry cough and shortness of breath...
...most cases have not turned out to be life threatening. Says Dr. Joseph Sung, chief of clinical medicine at Prince of Wales Hospital: "I'm quite convinced that some people might have contracted the infection but not the disease. Some may develop mild symptoms, like a little bit of cough and no fever; some may just feel a little tired...