I don't think SARS was eradicated? They were able to contain it and it died out naturally, disappeared. But that doesn't mean the same virus couldn't come back.

I could be wrong but that's how I remember it.

I'm not sure if SARS is considered eradicated. There were no human cases since 2004 but I don't think we dealt with it in original animal population.

I think we don't get human cases because jumping to humans again is quite hard for SARS.

So when people are talking about eradicating the coronavirus, they also mean in the animal population?

Seems to me that the virus that can spread among humans is a different version than the one common among the animal population.

> So when people are talking about eradicating the coronavirus, they also mean in the animal population?

I think so:

https://www.who.int/csr/don/2003_06_19/en/

> Seems to me that the virus that can spread among humans is a different version than the one common among the animal population.

Not necessarily. Ncov that spreads in humans came to be in bats and skipped effortlessly to other species including humans with no meaningful changes.

Corona is a SARS that jumped over, the scientific name is SARS-CoV-2