What are the symptoms of mers virus

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Mers is also known as Middle East respiratory syndrome. Patients with this disease usually have a history of contact with the diagnosed patients. Its common clinical manifestations include fever, fever with chills, cough, shortness of breath, muscle soreness, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal manifestations. However, you may also have a common cold. It is recommended that you cooperate with your doctor for active treatment.

What are the symptoms of mers virus

First, the symptoms of mers include fever, cough and shortness of breath. Most of the inpatients had fever, chills / chills, cough, shortness of breath and muscle pain. A quarter of the patients showed gastrointestinal symptoms at the same time, including diarrhea and vomiting. The maximum incubation period is two weeks.

Second, although mers and SARS have some similar clinical features (such as fever, cough, incubation period), there are some important differences between them.

Third, the transmission ability of mers virus is not strong, which is weaker than that of SARS virus in 2003 and H1N1 virus in 2009. It may be that the virus has not been fully adapted in human body after being infected by animals. Most of the cases are in the Gulf States, especially Saudi Arabia. This shows that the virus is not highly contagious, and even if you have come into contact with someone from Saudi Arabia - even if he has been infected - the chances of transmission to you are still very low. Most of the infected people are staff or patients in hospitals in Saudi Arabia, and most of them are elderly people. There is no evidence that mers can be transmitted in the general population. The objective statement is: it can't continue to infect between people, and the risk of close contacts is high.

matters needing attention

Maybe we can look at mers more calmly. In fact, for imported diseases, China has rich experience in the prevention and control of infectious sources. Moreover, we have no lack of experience in the prevention and control of mers, and the experience of SARS prevention and control is also applicable to this respiratory infectious disease.