Statement from US HHS director that the Public Health Service has added SARS to the list of quarantinable communicable diseases, in order to keep all options open. (April 4, 2003) - Read more

Archived news coverage. (Free registration required.) - Read more

Features audio clips of the radio program series, a fact sheet and timeline on SARS, commentary, and links to related coverage. By NPR National Public Radio. (September 23, 2003) - Read more

Overview of events since recognition of this outbreak as major global concern. Explains why this is more serious than outbreaks of other new infectious diseases in the last years. [WHO] (April 11, 2003) - Read more

Hong Kong establishes quarantine camps as a deadly pneumonia virus claims more victims. [BBC News] (April 1, 2003) - Read more

Overview of the severe acute respiratory syndrome. [Wired News] (March 17, 2003) - Read more

Women, men, family and child. - Read more

News on SARS collected from diverse sources on the web. - Read more

Special coverage of the outbreak, with emphasis on Australian cases and Asian travel issues. - Read more

Jim Erickson looks at the outbreak's medical and economic repercussions. - Read more

News coverage from the Associated Press and staff reporters, including local stories from the Washington, DC, US metropolitan area. - Read more

Analysis showing that common masks offer only limited protection, but that the perception of protection may be more important. [Slate] (April 7, 2003) - Read more

"Hong Kong schools will remain closed for a few more weeks in hope of stemming the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The city, which is at the center of a global battle against SARS, is struggling to determine why the disease continues to spread, despite efforts to contain it. " - Voice of America (April 3, 2003) - Read more

Early release of several articles dealing with the outbreak in Hong Kong and Canada. (March 31, 2003) - Read more

Several labs have found a coronavirus in SARS patients. One possibility is that the disease might be caused by both that and the previously isolated paramyxovirus acting in tandem. [New Scientist] (March 25, 2003) - Read more

The new, sometimes fatal, pneumonia-like disease got a head start in China because the country lacks a free press to dig out the truth. [BusinessWeek Online] (March 21, 2003) - Read more

How China's totalitarian government put the rest of the world at risk to the new virus. [The Daily Standard] - Read more

Archived news coverage, including interviews with cured patients, details of cooperation with the WHO, and discussion of the measures that have prevented the spread of the disease. - Read more

A senior Chinese physician accused his government yesterday of covering up details of the spread of the SARS virus in Beijing, raising fears that the crisis may be worse than previously thought. [The Scotsman] (April 10, 2003) - Read more

Opinion that the small number of cases in Hong Kong's massive population does not justify the widespread panic and disruption that fear of the virus is causing. [spiked] (April 3, 2003) - Read more