Covid-19 and Sars: How the world battled a deadly respiratory disease in 2003 - BBC World Service

In early 2003, almost two decades before the coronavirus pandemic, a medical emergency swept across the world. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or Sars, was a deadly virus which had first struck in southern China but soon there were cases as far away as Canada.

William Ho and Tom Buckley were at the forefront of the battle against the epidemic.

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[SpottyCong]

I know someone who was a doctor helping patients in China on the sars outbreak

[jasonbig]

Sars : I’m formidable
Covid 19: hold my corona

[lw]

I remember this vaguley, but it was one of those things that seemed to dissapear.

[ashar]

I'm planning to do a project on sars 2003, but couldn't find the exact data. Which websites did you use?

[PhillyBagel]

We did it once, we can do it again, right? Nope.

[datwanlivingston]

I was living doing that time I was a baby