SARS en · NOUN
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(abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable) Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also Sars.
Dad bends down so we're eye to eye and goes over all the risks of the coronavirus again—pneumonia, difficulty breathing, and even death. I swallow hard. "This is serious," he says. "It could be like SARS all over again."
2022, Kelly Yang, New From Here, page 1:Coronaviruses are worrying because epidemics caused by other members of the viral family, SARS and MERS, have had high death rates: 10 percent for SARS, and about 35 percent for MERS.
2020 January 24, Denise Grady, “Chicago woman is second patient in U.S. with Wuhan coronavirus”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:SARS set off a panic about global spread and contagion.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 182:
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SARS · SARS · SARS-CoV · SARSr-CoV · SARS-CoV-2 · SARS · SARS · SARS-CoV-1
Translations (15)
cmn 薩斯 /萨斯 (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · pt SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · ko 싸스 (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · ko 사스 (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · fi SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · es SRAS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · ja サーズ (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · de SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · hu súlyos akut légzőszervi szindróma (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · nl SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · cmn 非典 (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · fr SRAS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · pl SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · yue 沙士 (severe acute respiratory syndrome) · cmn SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)