SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which is highly infectious with pneumonia-like symptoms, is accompanied with high fever (over 100oF), headache, sore throat, dry cough, muscular stiffness, malaise, confusion, rash, and diarrhea. It spreads through droplets from sneezing or coughing, contact with contaminated objects. People who are frequent travelers and have visited the infected places or those in contact with anyone infected are at risk to get SARS. There is no known cure for SARS as yet, but doctors and researchers are grappling with the problem trying to work out an effective medicine. Presently the patients are treated symptomatically with antibiotics and steroids.
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