highly contagious atypical form of pneumonia originating in Guangdong (China)
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Noun
1. a respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in 2003; characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia; can be fatal
(synonym) severe acute respiratory syndrome
(hypernym) respiratory disease, respiratory illness, respiratory disorder
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SARS can refer to:
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome, a pneumonia-like disease
- The South African Revenue Service, the tax collection agency for South Africa
- Special Administrative Regions, commonly abbreviated to SARs
- Suffolk Accident Rescue Service, the charity providing a medical care
- Sars, the Specialist Anti-Robbery Squad, an elite police unit in Nigeria
- Michael Sars, a Norwegian biologist, father of Georg Sars.
- Georg Ossian Sars, a Norwegian biologist, son of Michael Sars.
- Sarah Bunting, also known as Sars, one of the founders of the television recap site Television Without Pity
- Sars, Perm Krai, an urban-type settlement in Perm Krai, Russia
- Sars, a common abbreviation for sarsaparilla in Australia
- Sveže Amputirana Ruka Satrijanija, or S.A.R.S., a Serbian alternative rock band.
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS, ) is a respiratory disease in humans which is caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong nearly became a pandemic, with 8,422 cases and 916 deaths worldwide (10.9% fatality) according to the World Health Organization. Within weeks, SARS spread from Hong Kong to infect individuals in 37 countries in early 2003.
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