Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A viral pneumonia that can progress to respiratory failure and is often characterized by high fever, malaise, dry cough, and shortness of breath.
Wiktionary
- pathology Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
Etymologies
- s(evere) a(cute) r(espiratory) s(yndrome). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
““What happened with SARS is what everyone fears might happen with avian influenza,” Epstein says.”
Disease-Hunting Scientists: Jonathan Epstein and the search for SARS
“One outbreak of SARS is an example of "stuff happens".”
Drug Price Discrimination?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The fourth generation of the virus SARS is found in Africa!”
“In 2003, China covered up the fact that they were seeing hundreds of cases of a new type of deadly pneumonia, what became known as SARS, for several months.”
“SARS is also a Bio-warfare agent, but the capitalists stopped with SARS because the Peoples†™ Republic of China, one of the capitalists†™ main targets, demonstrated that it could be completely neutralized through quarantine in 2003 in those areas in which it had been reported.”
Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
“SARS is also a Bio-warfare agent but the capitalists stopped with SARS because the Peoples†™ Republic of China, one of the capitalists†™ main targets, demonstrated that it could be completely neutralized through quarantine.”
“Asian Viruses Update: Looks like SARS is back, at least in China, which recently confirmed its fourth case.”
“SARS is clearly contributing to the current pause in global economic growth.”
“Apart from the silly answer that holding hands in the time of SARS is risky, I believe in the primacy of the story, the script, in the context of a text.”
“The government's latest battle in the war against SARS is curbing the national habit of spitting. posted by sydney on”
Tweets
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