Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus or SARS-CoV is the virus responsible for causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), one of the deadliest coronaviruses.

ME/CFS
The SARS-CoV virus causes SARS, which has then caused chronic fatigue syndrome in develop in a group of SARS survivors in Hong Kong. A syndrome resembling fibromyalgia was found to have developed immediately after SARS in a group of SARS survivors in Toronto, Canada.

Notable studies

 * 2011, Chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, depression and disordered sleep in chronic post-SARS syndrome; a case-controlled study
 * 2010, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Coronavirus - (Full text)