SARS (disambiguation)

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SARS most commonly refers to severe acute respiratory syndrome, a viral respiratory disease identified in the early 2000s caused by SARS-CoV-1.

SARS or Sars may also refer to:

Biology and medicine

• SARS (gene), a human gene for encoding the enzyme cytoplasmic seryl-tRNA synthetase
• Severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (SARSr-CoV or SARS-CoV), a virus species containing:
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), the virus that causes:
    • Severe acute respiratory syndrome, an infectious disease first identified in 2002
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes:
    • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease first identified in 2019
  • Bat SARS-like coronavirus WIV1 (Bat SL-CoV-WIV1 or SARS-like coronavirus WIV1), a strain isolated from Chinese rufous horseshoe bats

Organizations

• South African Revenue Service
• Special Anti-Robbery Squad, former unit of the Nigeria Police Force
  • End SARS, decentralised protest movement aimed at disbanding the squad
• Suffolk Accident Rescue Service, a charity providing medical care in the United Kingdom

Places

• Sars (urban-type settlement), a settlement in Perm Krai, Russia
• Sars Bank, a bank in the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica

France

• Le Sars, a commune in Pas-de-Calais
• Sars-le-Bois, a commune in Pas-de-Calais
• Sars-Poteries, a commune in Nord
• Sars-et-Rosières, a commune in Nord

Other uses

• SARS (band) (Sveže Amputirana Ruka Satrijanija), a Serbian alternative rock band
• Sarah D. Bunting or Sars, American blogger and journalist
• Sarsfields GAA (Cork) or Sars, a hurling club in Ireland

People with the surname

• Alain Sars (born 1961), French football referee
• Ernst Sars (1835–1917), Norwegian historian, son of Michael Sars
• Eva Sars (1858–1907), later Eva Nansen, Norwegian singer and skier, daughter of Michael Sars, wife of Fridtjof Nansen
• Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian biologist, son of Michael Sars
• Maren Sars (1811–1898) née Welhaven, Norwegian socialite and wife of Michael Sars
• Michael Sars (1805–1869), Norwegian biologist and priest

See also

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• SAR (disambiguation)
• Sarsaparilla (soft drink) or sarsi
• All pages with titles beginning with SARS
• All pages with titles beginning with Sars
• All pages with titles containing sars

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