SARS (disambiguation)
# 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
