Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Birnin ya jawo hankalin duniya a shekara ta 2003 lokacin da ya zama cibiyar babbar cutar cututtukan cututtukan cututtukan cututtuka (SARS). Yunkurin kiwon lafiyar jama'a don hana yaduwar cutar a wasu wurare na ɗan lokaci ya lalata tattalin arzikin yankin. Daga 14 zuwa 17 ga watan Agusta, 2003, birni ya sha wahala sosai.
wanda ya shafi miliyoyin 'yan Toronto (kuma ya shafi yawancin Kudancin Ontario da sassan Amurka), yana da ɗaruruwan mutane da ke cikin gine-gine masu tsayi, suna kashe fitilun wuta da dakatar da jirgin karkashin kasa da sabis na titin titin a duk faɗin birni a lokacin waɗannan kwanakin da aka ambata.