Before it was over hundreds of people around the world were killed -- including about 350 in China -- bringing Asian tourism and air industries almost to a halt.
An initial cover-up of the epidemic led to the sacking of Beijing's mayor and the health minister and led to scores of conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus.
Taiwan is now suggesting SARS was intentionally started by China.
Taiwan legislators wearing surgical masks and displaying banners with skull and crossbones took over parliament's floor on Tuesday after the country's security chief accused China of starting the global SARS epidemic six years ago as part of a biological warfare campaign.
Conspiracy theories about SARS have appeared before after two Russian scientists said that SARS could have been manufactured in labs.
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