The treat of sars seems to have passed or the media no longer thinks that it is worthy of today’s news however the fact is that no reported cases of sars have been made public for nearly six years since the original outbreak in 2003. The severe acute respiratory syndrome was a major scare to the world because of the rapid way t spread around the globe and the fact that this so called flu was killing its patients within days and weeks of them catching the disease. Like many other pandemics the sars problem created global confliction with travelers becoming the targets of scrutiny even if they were feeling the slightest bit unwell after a long haul flight.

The infection was thought to have originated in the land of China and has killed almost one thousand people to date. However now that the problem has stopped only a few countries have relaxed their laws on travel and any person looking sickly after a flight may be quarantined for the safety of the country they land in.