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Severe Acute respiratory Syndrome - a virus discovered and indentified in 2003. First infected humans in Guangdong, China in 2002, believe to be passed from animals to humans. Origins are not yet known accurately but likely, it is from either bats or civet cats. It affected 26 countries and had 8000 cases in 2003. The virus had influenza-like symptoms. Severe cases often evolve rapidly, worst case results to death. Since last known case in 2003, it reappeared four times.