Before COVID-19, there was SARS

Long before COVID-19 upended the world, there was SARS—a smaller, earlier outbreak that never reached pandemic scale but carried the same fear, the same uncertainty, and the same invisible threat. COVID-19 swept across continents; SARS, in contrast, gripped only pockets of communities. Yet for the people of a bucolic village in Alcala, Pangasinan, in 2003—and