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SARS, n.
Brit. |sɑːz|, U.S. |sɑrz|
Forms: 20– SARS, 20– Sars
[Acronym ‹ the initial letters of severe acute respiratory syndrome.]
Severe acute respiratory syndrome, an infectious disease caused by a coronavirus, usually presenting with fever, malaise, and cough, and progressing in a proportion of cases to pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome or respiratory failure.
First recognized as an epidemic in China beginning late in 2002.
2003Observer 16 Mar. i. 1/7 ‘This syndrome, Sars, is now a worldwide health threat,’ WHO director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland said. 2003Wired July 66/2 The World Health Organization scrambles to contain SARS and inspectors search Iraq for evidence of bioterror. 2004M. M. Suárez-Orozco & D. B. Qin-Hilliard Globalization i. 8 The case of SARS forcefully illustrates this dynamic. Within a few months of its original appearance.., it became a worldwide health threat. 2005Daily Rec. (Glasgow) (Nexis) 21 Feb. 9 Scientists can cure Sars, the lung disease which killed 774 in Asia two years ago. |