How to Use severe acute respiratory syndrome in a Sentence

severe acute respiratory syndrome

noun
  • But the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) may have left some survivors with a gift.
    Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 18 Aug. 2021
  • So, too, did severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which burrows into the lungs, leaving the sick gasping for air. ...
    Betsy McKay and Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2020
  • That wouldn’t have been a problem if the virus could have been contained or eradicated, like the one that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome.
    Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
  • There were the anthrax attacks and the global panic over severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
    Grant Delin, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2012
  • The technical name for the novel coronavirus, which is in the same family as the virus that causes SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
    cleveland, 12 Mar. 2020
  • That gives it a common ancestor with the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus.
    Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 26 Jan. 2020
  • That wasn't the case with severe acute respiratory syndrome, a similar coronavirus that began spreading in China in 2002 and was contained the next year.
    Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Sotrovimab is an antibody that was identified in the blood of a patient who had recovered from the first severe acute respiratory syndrome virus, which emerged nearly two decades ago.
    Carolyn Y. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Since then, convalescent plasma has been used to fight measles and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, among other diseases.
    oregonlive, 11 July 2020
  • It was included in the covid-19 trial because steroids were tried as a treatment for SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), a related lung disease, with mixed results.
    The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • Even during the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003, the annual legislative session went ahead as scheduled.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • By comparison, patients with SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, spread the infection to an average of two to four others.
    oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2020
  • An earlier deadly outbreak of a coronavirus occurred in 2003, in a disease known as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
    James West Davidson, The Atlantic, 9 July 2020
  • Health experts did not have access to such quantities of social, web, and mobile data when seeking to track previous outbreaks such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
    Will Knight, Wired, 8 Feb. 2020
  • That response suggests that infection with other coronaviruses, such as those responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and even the common cold, may aid the body’s fight against the new invader.
    Jason Douglas, WSJ, 12 June 2020
  • Remember the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, aka SARS?
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In epidemics such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, Ebola and Zika, researchers and companies mobilized for vaccines and treatments, although the results were mixed.
    Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Many participants in that protest were also expressing frustration with the government's handling of an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and its effect on the economy, as well as a host of minor scandals.
    James Griffiths, CNN, 10 June 2019
  • That is when the territory’s economy was ravaged by severe acute respiratory syndrome—another epidemic caused by a coronavirus—and then staged a remarkable comeback in less than a year.
    Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 12 June 2020
  • The family of coronaviruses causes several diseases, from the common cold to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses whose effects range from causing the common cold to triggering much more serious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
    Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The strategy was investigated during the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) 2 decades ago.
    Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 26 Jan. 2023
  • America's top scientists have likewise concluded the virus is of natural origin, citing clues in its genome and its similarity to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
    David Klepper, Chron, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Hospitals worldwide also seal off wards when transmissible diseases break out inside, such as during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003.
    Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Yet in 2003, the country badly botched the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, another coronavirus disease, by failing to respond quickly and initially withholding information from the public and WHO.
    Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 18 May 2021
  • In April, scientists found that the drug could also treat mice infected with other coronaviruses that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome.
    Carl Zimmer, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Preliminary analyses suggest the new virus may share some genetic similarities with SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
    NBC News, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Here’s some background information about SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 June 2021
  • The company had also created protein subunit vaccines against two close cousins of the pandemic virus—the coronaviruses that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome, using those viruses’ spike proteins.
    Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Symptoms can include fever, coughing and breathing difficulties, while serious cases can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and death, according to WHO.
    Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2020

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