Exactly 25 years ago on April 3, 1996, the lives of everyone in the isolated little community of Lincoln would be thrown into the white-hot glare of the international media spotlight. Click for more. In January of last year, Glenn and his colleagues were closely watching an unusual cluster of pneumonia reported in China. They wondered whether that outbreak could be due to another version or recurrence of the coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS. "It occurred to us that this just might be 'SARS 2,' " Glenn said. "The sequence was published on the Internet, the genetic sequence for the virus -- and we could see it was a coronavirus. Then we kicked into action."