Definition of severe acute respiratory syndrome
: sars
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2003
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- In late 2002 and early 2003 epidemiologists in Ottawa, Ontario were able to … identify and help stop the spread of an outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) that began in China.
- —Larry Brilliant, Forbes, 7 May 2007
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