SARS Research in China

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is an emerging infectious disease by the pathogen of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which characterized by rapid progress, high prevalence and fatality. Among the 23 infected countries, China is the most severely affected area. Chinese scientists had done enormous works on epidemiology, etiology, pathology, animal model and vaccines, and achieved plentiful and substantial results, especially in tracing source of SARS-CoV, therapeutics combining with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and west medicine, pathogenesis, SARS-CoV inactivated vaccine and rhesus animal models. In these research areas, the Chinese scientists are putting the world ahead in SARS research. In this paper, we reviewed the achievements on SARS in China.