SARS update 11 April - Compelling evidence for aetiology, WHO team report from China, global epidemiology, and EU index and guidance

Several articles on the identification of a novel coronavirus thought to have a role in causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) have been given early online publication this week (1-5), and the World Health Organization (WHO) has published an interim report from the WHO team of experts currently investigating the outbreak in China (7).