Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Apr 18, 2024 · Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease caused by a SARS-coronavirus. While SARS cases were detected as early as November 2002 as part of an …
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease caused by a SARS-associated coronavirus.
Naming the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the virus that causes it
Feb 11, 2020 · ICTV announced “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” as the name of the new virus on 11 February 2020. This name was chosen because the virus is …
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
Dec 11, 2025 · Key facts Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory disease caused by a coronavirus (MERS-CoV) that was first identified in Saudi Arabia and Jordan in 2012. …
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants - World Health Organization (WHO)
Mar 27, 2024 · It remains critical that global systems to detect signals of potential variants of interest (VOIs) or variants of concern (VOCs) and rapidly assess the risk posed by SARS-CoV-2 variants to …
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Dec 5, 2025 · Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Most people infected with the virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and …
SARS-CoV-2 Evolution - World Health Organization (WHO)
Dec 30, 2020 · SARS-CoV-2 spreads primarily through human-to-human transmission, but there is evidence of transmission between humans and animals. Several animals like mink, dogs, domestic …
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Variants of SARS-COV-2
Nov 20, 2023 · Since 2020, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been spreading and changing globally. These changes have led to the detection of variants in many countries around the …
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Nov 27, 2025 · COVID-19 is a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. There are a range of signs and symptoms, but hte most common symptoms reported for currently-circulating variants are …
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Mar 28, 2023 · COVID-19 is the disease caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. WHO first learned of this new virus on 31 December 2019, following a report of a cluster of cases of so-called …