SARS, which stands for severe acute respiratory syndrome, is a potentially deadly disease. Learn more about the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of SARS.

About 10 percent of SARS survivors appear to be left with lung damage that renders them unable to perform routine tasks without struggling for breath, doctors in Hong Kong reported yesterday.

COVID-19 is a serious respiratory disease, but how does it really affect your lungs if you get infected? Here’s what coronavirus can do to your lungs in mild-to-moderate, severe, and critical cases.

Researchers identified how SARS-CoV-2 targets and manipulates specific lung cells, using innovative techniques to trace the virus's impact on the cells' gene expression, revealing insights into ...

Researchers have uncovered the mechanism that contributes to the buildup of fibrous lung tissue in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), finding that a SARS viral protein ...

A previously overlooked type of immune cell allows SARS-CoV-2 to proliferate, Stanford Medicine scientists have found. The discovery has important implications for preventing severe COVID-19.

World Health Organization experts will go to a crowded Chinese province where SARS is spreading fast. And, as the known global death toll approached 500, new research published Wednesday suggested ...

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys, University of California San Diego and their international collaborators have reported that more types of lung cells can be infected by SARS-CoV-2 than ...

Study: SARS-CoV-2 Viral Replication Persists in the Human Lung for Several Weeks after Onset of Symptomatic Severe COVID-19 and Is Associated with Attenuated Pulmonary Immunity and Variant ...

Although the impacts of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been recorded across the board —from the liver to the heart to the brain, and beyond— nowhere is the damage quite as intense as in the lungs.