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A Santa Clara County woman who recently returned from Hong Kong is believed to have contracted severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, a respiratory illness linked to Asia, health authorities said Monday.

March 26, 2003

Global effort by World Health Organization identifies viral cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome, a key step to conquering new disease.

March 23, 2003

Officials announced 88 new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome at a Hong Kong apartment complex and slapped a strict 10-day quarantine on one building as the illness continued spreading in Asia and Canada.

March 31, 2003

Asia trips in particular are being reconsidered as more cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome crop up.

April 13, 2003

Health officials say at least 17 have died worldwide of severe acute respiratory syndrome. They point to a new coronavirus.

March 25, 2003

Singapore ordered tough new measures, including electronic wrist tags and cameras in quarantined homes, in an effort to contain severe acute respiratory syndrome.

April 11, 2003

A Chinese researcher said today that his country’s latest suspected SARS patient in southern China definitely has the disease, while Hong Kong researchers linked the case to wild animals.

Jan. 5, 2004

Qantas airline employees are trying to contact 310 passengers who were on a March 30 flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia, after three children on the flight developed symptoms of severe acute respiratory syndrome, the airline told the Associated Press on Saturday.

April 6, 2003

Canadian authorities said a man died of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Toronto, bringing the nation’s death toll to 30, and they isolated an Ottawa nurse as a precaution.

May 31, 2003

A combination of steroids and antiviral drugs offers a promising treatment for SARS, the virus that killed about 800 people this year and infected thousands worldwide, Canadian researchers reported Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn.

Dec. 27, 2003