Health officials in Canada close some hospitals to all patients but those with a new, contagious form of pneumonia, called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). So far, the new disease has struck ...

Dwindling SARS cases across Asia fuelled hopes the new disease might be contained, but the optimism was tempered by a clutch of new cases in Canada which might yet lead to a global resurgence. As life ...

April 14, 2003 — Editor's note: As the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak continues to evolve, many things are being learned about how to deal with this viral entity. Medscape's Alfred ...

TORONTO -- The number of people with SARS in Canada's largest city tripled to 33 on Thursday when health officials broadened their definition of what constitutes a "probable case" to meet ...

OTTAWA, April 24 (Reuters) - An outbreak of swine flu in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, would not be as serious as the 2003 SARS epidemic, in part because authorities have been preparing ...

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