Corona virus
CORONA Virus
What is it ?
Corona viruses are not dangerous. As we mentionned is that much of Corana viruses can be treated effectively, in fact most people get a corona virus at some time in their life, usually during their childhood. Althought it is more frequent in autumn and winter, Corona viruses are a family of viruses that were discovered in the 1960s but whose origine is still unknown, its different types cause different diseases from a cold to a several respiratory syndrome.
In recent years, three major epidemic outbreaks caused by corona virus have been described :
*SARS-CoV: The acute and severe respiratory syndrome started in November 2002 in CHINA, affected more than 8000 people in 37 countries and caused more than 700 death, the mortality of SARS-CoV has been estimated at proximatly 10%
*MERS-Cov: The Corona virus that causes the middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) was first detected in 2012 in Saudi Arabia, more than 2400 cases od infections have been reported in October 2019 in different countries with more than 800 deaths. Lethality is therefore 35%
*2019nCov: At the end of December 2019, the first cases of a new infected been continuous, there have been several deaths and it has been confirmed not only from animals to people, but from human to human it does not seen as serious as "SARS" or as lethal as "MERS". To date, no vaccine or specefic treatment is available to combat corona virus infection it is convenient to wash your hands frequantly and avoid contact with people already infected, especially protecting eyes, nose and mouth those who may be in contact with potential affected persons are advised to wear masks and use hand Kerchiefs to cover their nose and mouth when they cough or sneez.
It is still early to determine the mortality rate of Wuhan corona virus (2019nCov), but it seems lower than the previous ones.
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