Friday, March 20, 2020

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF MERS AND SARS...

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MERS.....Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mers

SARS......an acute respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus, characterized by fever, coughing, breathing difficulty, and usually pneumonia. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sars?s=t
 
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
Cause SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) – virus identified in 2003. SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir, perhaps bats, that spread to other animals (civet cats) and first infected humans in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002.  https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/

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