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Health Alert! Main symptoms of MERS.

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 16 April 2014 - 15:35

A virus called coronavirus is the cause of MERS. There are many kinds of coronavirus, some of which cause the common cold. The MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was a new variant that was discovered in 2012 in the Middle East region.

How MERS spreads is not completely understood, but experts believe that the main way it spreads is through close contact with an infected person (by caring for or living with the person, or having direct contact with their respiratory secretions and body fluids). The people who have been infected by MERS have all been in a health care facility or among close family members.
MERS is different from SARS. Most importantly, the MERS virus does not appear to be as easily spread between people, whereas the SARS virus spreads very easily.

[b]The main symptoms of MERS are:
cough, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing
diarrhea
high fever (over 38°C or 100.4°F)[/b]

Keep safe everyone! Stay fit and healthy!

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 17 April 2014 - 20:09
Some nurses, or one paramedic? It doesn't spread just like the common cold; that is clear even in the extract you posted - SARS spreads like the common cold; MERS (so far) appears to require closer contact. It's a nasty virus but not sure about really scary - yet, anyway. What's really scary is the symptoms are very common. So its hard to detect whether someone is a carrier of the virus or its just a common cold.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 16 April 2014 - 16:40
Some nurses, or one paramedic? It doesn't spread just like the common cold; that is clear even in the extract you posted - SARS spreads like the common cold; MERS (so far) appears to require closer contact. It's a nasty virus but not sure about really scary - yet, anyway.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 16 April 2014 - 16:27
Oh. That includes every last one of my family. Some nurses died actually because of the virus. Its really scary as it spreads just like a common cold.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 16 April 2014 - 16:23
Oh. That includes every last one of my family.