Severe acute respiratory syndrome is the medical name for the more commonly known sars epidemic which has been circling the world for quite a number of years now. The disease attacks the respiratory system which causes the lungs to become incapacitated and eventually they give up working. Originally the claims say that the epidemic started in China and then moved to over 30 other countries around the world which then became a pandemic which means multiple country disease problems.

Pneumonia type symptoms are the first signs of the sars disease as well as common flu like symptoms and usually a high fever. The disease can be spread from one human to another through air born particles which is why there are many people opting to use face masks when they walk through airports or other foreign countries such as China or Singapore.

The patients of sars are always isolated when the condition is confirmed. The only help that the doctors can offer is through breathing which is via supplemented oxygen. A vaccine was developed in China in 2004 however this only gave part of the population immunity against the disease rather than the whole community.