Experts said, the new SARS-causing coronavirus found in the Middle East suspected communicable between humans is easy and more deadly than SARS.In the last year, the World Health Organization WHO has recorded at least 60 cases by the mysterious virus also known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). As many as 50 victims were died, and most of the cases originated in Saudi Arabia. So far, the SARS-causing coronavirus does not spread as fast as the SARS virus in 2003, which killed 800 people.
The international team of experts that investigated 24 cases of MERS in eastern Saudi Arabia found that the SARS-causing coronavirus recently turned out to have similarities to SARS. However, unlike SARS, researchers have not been able to uncover the source of MERS.The concern, according to a team of experts is not only easily contagious MERS among humans, but it can also spread in hospitals. It also occurs in the case of SARS.
"For me the MERS is very similar to SARS," said Dr. Trish Perl, epidemiological senior from Johns Hopkins Medicine, which is part of the research team. This expert team has published his findings in the New England Journal of Medicine online edition.Perl added, his team has not been able to ascertain how this virus spreads in every case, whether it is through droplets from sneezing or coughing fluid, or other lines that are not straight. Some patients at the hospital did not close it with an infected, but they can still become infected with a mysterious virus.
"In the right conditions, they could have exploded," said Perl, who stressed that only a team of experts examined a luster of MERS in Saudi Arabia.SARS-causing coronavirus infection cases so far continues to grow, and would seem to be outbreaks in Saudi Arabia. Case of MERS has been reported in some countries like Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, Stations, Italy and Tunisia. Most cases are found in countries that have a direct relationship with the Middle East.
Perl said, on a cluster that is examined in Saudi Arabia, some patients turned out to be infecting more people. A patient who is undergoing dialysis treatment is found to be spreading to other patients 7 of MERS.Perl and his team also concluded the symptoms of MERS and SARS. The disease begins with fever and cough for a few days, before it develops into pneumonia. But MERS seems to be more deadly. Because of SARS, compared with the average of his death only 8 percent, the level of danger of MERS can reach up to 65 percent.
The source of the mysterious virus MERS still, unlike the case with SARS that the trail is found on the bat before passing to human infectious weasel. MERS may be related to virus bat, but some experts argued the disease can come from camel or goat. Other hypotheses, bats are infected may contaminate food sources such as date palm, which many are grown and consumed in Saudi Arabia.
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