The SARS outbreak of 2003
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a total of 8,098 people worldwide became sick with
SARS during the 2003 outbreak. Of these, 774 died. In the United States, only eight people had
laboratory evidence of SARS-CoV infection. All of these people had traveled to other parts of the world
with SARS. SARS did not spread more widely in the community in the United States. For an update on
SARS cases in the United States and worldwide as of December 2003,