'''Şiddetli akut solunum yolu sendromu''' ('''Severe acute respiratory syndrome''' ('''SARS'''))<ref>{{Web kaynağı|url=http://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/|başlık=WHO sitesinde SARS sayfası|dil=İngilizce|erişimtarihi=19 Temmuz 2012}}</ref>, insanları etkileyen, [[SARS coronavirus]]'ünün (SARS-CoV) neden olduğu<ref>{{Web kaynağı|url=http://www.cdc.gov/sars/about/fs-SARS.html|başlık=CDC- SARS|dil=İngilizce|erişimtarihi=19 Temmuz 2012}}</ref> [[solunum yolu]] sendromudur.<ref name=Thiel>{{Kitap kaynağı| yazar= Thiel V (editor). | başlık= Coronaviruses: Molecular and Cellular Biology | edition = 1st | yayımcı= Caister Academic Press | yıl= 2007 | url=http://www.horizonpress.com/cor | isbn=978-1-904455-16-5]}}</ref> Kasım 2002 ve Temmuz 2003 tarihleri arasında [[Hong Kong]]'da başlayan SARS salgını neredeyse [[pandemi]]k hale gelmiş ve dünya çapında 8422 vaka ve 916 ölüm görülmüştür.<ref>{{Web kaynağı|url=http://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/2003_08_15/en/index.html|başlık=Summary table of SARS cases by country, 1 November 2002 – 7 August 2003|yayımcı=World Health Organization}}</ref> [[Dünya Sağlık Örgütü]] fatalite oranını (ölüm oranı) %10,9 olarak açıklamıştır.<ref>{{Web kaynağı|url=http://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/table2004_04_21/en/index.html |başlık= Summary of probable SARS cases with onset of illness from 1 November 2002 to 31 July 2003 |yayımcı=WHO |erişimtarihi=2008-10-31}}</ref><!-- old unsourced figures: "with 9856 known cases of the disease, and 813 deaths (a mortality rate of 9.636%)." --><!-- In May 2005, the disease itself was declared 'eradicated' by the WHO and it became the second disease in mankind to receive this label (the other was [[smallpox]]). The ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' reported "not a single case of severe acute respiratory syndrome has been reported this year or in late 2004. It is the first winter without a case since the initial outbreak in late 2002. In addition, the epidemic strain of SARS that caused at least 813 deaths worldwide by June 2003 has not been seen outside a laboratory since then."<ref>{{cite news| yazar=Yardley J | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/health/15sars.html | başlık=After Its Epidemic Arrival, SARS Vanishes |iş=The New York Times | tarih=2005-05-15 | erişimtarihi=2008-10-31}}</ref> -->Haftalar içinde SARS erkeni 2003 yılının başlarında Hong Kong'dan 37 ülkede yayılmıştır.<ref>{{Dergi kaynağı|yazar=Smith, R. D.|başlık=Responding to global infectious disease outbreaks, Lessons from SARS on the role of risk perception, communication and management |journal=[[Social Science and Medicine]] |volume=63 |issue=12 |sayfalar=3113–3123 |yıl=2006 |pmid= 16978751|doi=10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.08.004 }}
