Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A viral pneumonia that can progress to respiratory failure and is often characterized by high fever, malaise, dry cough, and shortness of breath.
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- initialism pathology
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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- noun 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
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One outbreak of SARS is an example of "stuff happens".
Drug Price Discrimination?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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“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 ewillett 2009
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The fourth generation of the virus SARS is found in Africa!
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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 2006
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Asian Viruses Update: Looks like SARS is back, at least in China, which recently confirmed its fourth case.
Medpundit 2004
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