One further factor, possibly the most crucial, was inherent to the way SARS-CoV affects the human body: Symptoms tend to appear in a person before, rather than after, that person becomes highly infectious. The headache, the fever, and the chills – maybe even the cough – precede the major discharge of virus toward other people.
-David Quammen
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