Health Group Certain of Agent in Respiratory Ailment

The SARS virus is definitely caused by a new form of the coronavirus family, says the director of the World Health Organization. Immediately after the virus was discovered in Hong Kong in March, WHO put together a team of 13 laboratories around the world to search for the root of the virus. Experiments on monkeys in Rotterdam confirmed identified coronavirus as the culprit. Thanks to advances in technologies, it took researchers a much shorter time to identify the cause of SARS than it did in years past at the onset of epidemics such as AIDS and Legionnaire's disease. – YaleGlobal