What are the symptoms of mers

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What is the disease of mers? What are the symptoms and hazards of mers? For many people, the SRS virus infection a few years ago is still palpitating, which also caused people to pay attention to their own health. Let's take a look at the following.

What are the symptoms of mers

First, for the sake of being easy to understand, the media often refer to mers as the new SARS, but in fact, although the two viruses belong to the same coronavirus, they have clear genetic differences and use different receptors.

Second: their pathogens belong to coronavirus. They are all respiratory tract infections. They may have similar symptoms and consequences. However, there is no simple analogy between their infectivity and pathogenicity. The pathogen is coronavirus, which itself can't judge anything. Coronavirus is also various, and some can only cause common cold.

Third: from its discovery to May this year, the World Health Organization has received more than 1000 cases of mers, of which more than 400 cases died. From this point of view, it is indeed dangerous, and the mortality rate is quite high. On the other hand, the infectious ability of mers is not as strong as that of SARS, and there is no trend of large-scale outbreak. The transmission between people is limited, and only close contact is found at present.

matters needing attention

At present, there is no targeted treatment, there is no vaccine, mainly support treatment, and general health and infectious disease control measures.