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severe acute respiratory syndrome (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 severe acute respiratory syndromes)
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出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/20 20:05 UTC 版)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS, /ˈsɑrz/ sarz) is a respiratory disease in humans which is caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). There was one near pandemic, between the months of November 2002 and July 2003, with 8,422 known infected cases and 916 confirmed human deaths (a case-fatality rate of 10.9%) worldwide being listed in the World Health Organization's (WHO) 21 April 2004 concluding report. Within a matter of weeks in early 2003, SARS spread from Hong Kong to rapidly infect individuals in some 37 countries around the world.