A newly found virus has affected 834 people in china out of which 26 died. After research the virus found to be belonging to Corona virus family. Yes, you quessed that right it is the same family to which SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory System) belong to. The outbreak of SARS virus in 2002 -03 led to research of Novel Corona virus which affected 8000 people worldwide and 774 out of them died. MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) is one of the deadliest virus of this family. In 2012 it was first found in Saudi Arabia, 2500 people were reported affected by this Syndrome out of which 858 died. Mortality rate of MERS is more than 35% and mortality rate& SARS is around 10 %. The new virus found oflate has no name. So it is Called 2-0-1-9-C-0-V in China. There at hundreds of virus in world but many of them are known. People are afraid of those virus which are not discovered yet or whose antivirals are not prepared yet. Mortality rate this virus is 2% and it has already spread in 8 countries. Lets deep dive into how did it begin? It all started from Wuhan sea food market where caged chicken and raw meat are sold side by side. Corona virus usually circulate among animals mostly bats and snakes, from animals it is transmitted to human beings Among human being it spread very fast. In one case 14 medical workers got this virus by an affected person.It spread by basic physical contact with affected like hugging an affected person, by handshake, coughing or sneezing. At December 31 china alerts the World Health Organisation about some special cases of pneumonia in Wuhan. The virus was unknown. At January 7th virus was identified. At January 20 china reported 4 persen died of this virus and 200 people infected. Wuhan is placed under survielence, bus and train services has been stopped. All this happened ahead of Lunar New Year (25th Jan) Symptoms of Novel- Cov ranges from minor fever, dry cough, shortage of breath, sore throat, bronchitis, kidney failure or even death. Major problem is that its primary symptoms seems to be like common flu. Over last a few decades Zonotic diseases have been spreading at very high rate. These diseases have drawn attention of medical researchers. Zonetic diseases are those disease which spread by animals (animals to humans mostly). These diseases can be spread by bats, bugs, cats, flees. flies monkeys, pigs, horses, rabbits, mice, goats, mosquitoes. So people should avoid consuming such animals, insects and reptiles. Some of the common zonotic diseases are animal flu, bird flu cat scratch flu, encophalitis from ticks, hepatitis E, lyme disease plague and Rabbies.
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