A person came down with an atypical form of pneumonia in November 2002, but it would be two months before anyone realized it ...

BEIJING, May 30 -- In a significant shift of tone, the Chinese government today dismissed criticism that it was slow to respond to the SARS crisis, denying it tried to hide the outbreak, refusing to ...

MONTEREY, Calif. -- The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Sickness, or SARS, in China and the government's initial attempt to hush the incident have already proved fatal in public health, economic ...

BEIJING -- China on Thursday threatened execution for people who knowingly spread the SARS virus and cause death or serious injury, as the government attempted to force compliance with quarantines and ...

BEIJING, May 17 -- The World Health Organization has concluded that doctors in China are overlooking SARS patients with only mild symptoms of the disease and are sending them home or placing them ...

China, with 5,974 cases of a new virus, has more infections than it did with SARS, though the death toll is still lower. China had 5,327 cases of SARS in the 2002-2003 outbreak. China reported another ...

BEIJING -- A top Chinese health official denied claims that Beijing tried to hide the seriousness of the SARS virus, saying Friday that the government warned about SARS as early as February and early ...

BEIJING - International health officials blamed a breach in lab security Monday for China's latest emergence of SARS as Chinese authorities kept nearly 500 people quarantined in a struggle to contain ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Susannah Kurtz hoped to study Eastern and traditional medicine during a four-week program for medical students in Beijing. But two weeks into the program, Kurtz flew home, worried ...

The death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak soared to 803 in China on Sunday, according to official figures, overtaking the global toll for SARS. Map showing some of the different quarantine ...

BEIJING — China's last 12 SARS patients were declared cured on Tuesday, marking at least a temporary end to the epidemic in the country where it started and where it hit hardest. Most of the 12 ...