Coronavirus Transmission: MERS CoV | It is necessary to be afraid
by Emily Sunders BloggerCoronavirus MERS-CoV
Coronaviruses are part of a family of viruses that can cause a wide range of diseases. In humans, these diseases range from the common cold to severe lung infection, causing acute respiratory distress.
Two coronaviruses have caused serious epidemics in humans: SARS, responsible for a global epidemic between November 2002 and July 2003, and the Mers-CoV identified for the first time in 2012 in the Middle East.
In early January 2020, the discovery of a new coronavirus (MERS-CoV) linked to clustered cases of pneumopathies was announced by the Chinese health authorities and the WHO.
On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of several cases of pneumonia of unknown causes in the city of Wuhan, China. The virus, previously unknown, is a coronavirus. It has been named MERS-CoV.
Four cases of coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV) were reported in France as of 28 January 2020.
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