SARS (disambiguation)

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