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[[Severe acute respiratory syndrome]] (SARS) and [[Middle East respiratory syndrome]] (MERS) are caused by new types of [[coronavirus]]es. Other coronaviruses are known to cause mild infections in humans,<ref name="pmid22094080">{{cite book |vauthors=Weiss SR, Leibowitz JL |title=Coronavirus pathogenesis |volume=81|pages=85–164 |year=2011 |pmid=22094080 |doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-385885-6.00009-2 |series=Advances in Virus Research |pmc=7149603 |isbn=978-0-12-385885-6}}</ref> so the virulence and rapid spread of SARS infections—that by July 2003 had caused around 8,000 cases and 800 deaths—was unexpected and most countries were not prepared.<ref name="pmid28475794">{{cite journal |vauthors=Wong AT, Chen H, Liu SH, Hsu EK, Luk KS, Lai CK, Chan RF, Tsang OT, Choi KW, Kwan YW, Tong AY, Cheng VC, Tsang DC |title=From SARS to Avian Influenza Preparedness in Hong Kong |journal=Clinical Infectious Diseases |volume=64 |issue=suppl_2 |pages=S98–S104 |date=May 2017 |pmid=28475794 |doi=10.1093/cid/cix123 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

A related coronavirus emerged in [[Wuhan]], China, in November 2019 and spread rapidly around the world. Thought to have originated in bats and subsequently named [[severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2]], infections with the virus cause a disease called [[COVID-19]], that varies in severity from mild to deadly,<ref name="WHOReport24Feb2020">{{cite report | title = Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | date = 16–24 February 2020 | url = https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf | publisher = [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) | access-date = 21 March 2020}}</ref> and led to a [[COVID-19 pandemic|pandemic in 2020]].<ref name="pmid32143502">{{cite journal |vauthors=Ashour HM, Elkhatib WF, Rahman MM, Elshabrawy HA |title=Insights into the Recent 2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Light of Past Human Coronavirus Outbreaks |journal=Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages= 186|date=March 2020 |pmid=32143502 |doi=10.3390/pathogens9030186 |pmc=7157630 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="pmid32093211">{{cite journal |vauthors=Deng SQ, Peng HJ |title=Characteristics of and Public Health Responses to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak in China |journal=Journal of Clinical Medicine |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages= 575|date=February 2020 |pmid=32093211 |doi=10.3390/jcm9020575 |pmc=7074453 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="pmid32109444">{{cite journal |vauthors=Han Q, Lin Q, Jin S, You L |title=Coronavirus 2019-nCoV: A brief perspective from the front line |journal=The Journal of Infection |volume= 80|issue= 4|pages= 373–377|date=February 2020 |pmid=32109444 |doi=10.1016/j.jinf.2020.02.010 |pmc=7102581 }}</ref> Restrictions unprecedented in peacetime were placed on international travel,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restrictions.html|title=Coronavirus Travel Restrictions, Across the Globe| vauthors = Londoño E, Ortiz A |work=The New York Times |date=16 March 2020|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> and [[curfews]] imposed in several major cities worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/03/us-takes-more-big-pandemic-response-steps-europe-covid-19-cases-soar|title=US takes more big pandemic response steps; Europe COVID-19 cases soar|website=CIDRAP|date=15 March 2020 }}</ref>

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