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means A severe respiratory illness, caused by a coronavirus, that emerged in 2003 and spread from China to dozens of countries before being contained.

from SARS is an acronym — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome — coined by health officials in 2003 to name the newly identified coronavirus disease as it spread from Guangdong, China, through Hong Kong and onward via air travel. The name is purely descriptive, stacking clinical adjectives into a label, but it became shorthand for a specific global scare: the first major coronavirus outbreak of the 21st century, and an uneasy preview of 2020's much larger sequel.