Camel flu

Key facts • Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory disease caused by Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS‐CoV) that was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012. • Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause diseases ranging from the common cold to Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). • Typical MERS symptoms include fever, cough and shortness of breath. Pneumonia is common, but MERS patients may not always develop this condition. Gastrointestinal symptoms, including diarrhoea, have also been reported among MERS patients. • Approximately 35% of MERS cases reported to WHO have died. • MERS-CoV is a zoonotic virus, meaning it is transmitted between animals and people. MERS-CoV has been identified and linked to human infections in dromedary camels in several Member States in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. • Human-to-human transmission is possible and has occurred predominantly among close contacts and in health care settings. Outside the health care setting, there has been limited human-to-human transmission. Symptoms The clinical spectrum of MERS-CoV infection ranges from no symptoms (asymptomatic) or mild respiratory symptoms to severe acute respiratory disease and death. A typical presentation of MERS is fever, cough and shortness of breath. Pneumonia is a common finding, but MERS patients may not always develop this condition. Gastrointestinal symptoms, including diar...

Ray Liotta's cause of death confirmed a year after he died, more news © FRANCK FIFE (AFP) . France have made it to Sunday’s World Cup final while having to deal with all kinds of setbacks and adversities. The most recent concerns the players’ health. A number of players have gone down with a mysterious, debilitating virus, similar to the flu - the situation is understandably a cause for concern with the France camp. The two most affected players to date are Dayot Upamecano and Adrien Rabiot - neither of whom were well enough to play a single minute of Wednesday’s semi-final against Morocco. Rabiot remained in isolation back at the team hotel. In Qatar there is concern about a virus dubbed Camel flu that is going around for the past couple of weeks. Many fans attending the World Cup, including those who have now returned home, have also come down with a nagging cold that they have struggled to shake off. Camel flu is the common name for Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) - a viral respiratory disease caused by Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS‐CoV), a zoonotic virus which can be transmitted between animals and people with camels being the main link between the two. It was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and since then there have been 2,600 laboratory confirmed cases in humans, and at almost 1,000 deaths worldwide although 80% of cases of MERS‐CoV affecting humans have been confined to Saudi Arabia. Human-to-human transmission of MERS‐CoV is po...

Healthcare officials are warning physicians to be on the lookout for camel flu as soccer fans start coming back from the World Cup games in Qatar. The UK Health Security Agency advised doctors to be on the lookout for patients suffering from fever and breathing difficulties, British news agency That notice also lists coughing and diarrhea as symptoms of the potentially deadly infection for which there is no vaccine. While not commonly found in humans, MERS has been fatal in 35% of English soccer fans started making their way back from Qatar after their team lost 2-1 to France on Saturday. Australia’s national team pulled off a stunning 1-0 win against Denmark on Nov. 30, but were sent packing following a Dec. 3 loss to Argentina. That same day, the U.S. team got knocked out of the tournament. Argentina battles Croatia on Tuesday for a trip to the championship game against the winner of France’s Wednesday match against Morocco. More than 2.45 million people attended the first 48 World Cup matches in Qatar, by

Many camels in Saudi Arabia have been infected with the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), but the virus rarely spreads from the animals to people, a new study says. The MERS virus first appeared in 2012 and causes a respiratory illness that has killed 30 percent of the people infected with it, but it's not well understood. Still, the researchers stressed that, although rare, it's still possible for camels to transmit MERS to humans. It may be more common for the virus to spread from camels to people "in other settings in which humans are exposed over sustained periods to animals among which virus prevalence is higher," the researchers wrote in their findings. In fact, a study published last June provided strong evidence that a 44-year-old man from Saudi Arabia Earlier studies have also found that the majority of dromedary In the new study, the researchers wrote that the situation with MERS in camels is like that of bird flu (H5N1) in poultry markets in Asia: Although the virus is common in animals, human infection is rare, and can seem random. Future studies on how the MERS virus spreads from camels to humans should examine whether some people are more susceptible than others to the infection, the researchers said. Follow Rachael Rettner @RachaelRettner. Follow Live Science @livescience , & Google+ . Original article on Live Science . Rachael is a Live Science contributor, and was a former channel editor and senior writer for Live Science between 2...

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