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The long incubation period of MERS-CoV is good news although it is also caused by the coronavirus.
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GridHEALTH.id – Disease Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS- CoV) is a respiratory tract disease caused by corona virus.
This disease is transmitted from camels to humans, as well as from humans to humans.
MERS-CoV thought to have originally come from camels that live in Middle Eastern countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Yemen.
Although MERS-CoV also occurs in several countries in Europe and America, sufferers are known to have contracted this disease after traveling to Middle Eastern countries.
Therefore, this disease is often referred to as Middle East respiratory syndrome.
Although this disease is now inferior to the Covid-19 pandemic which is also caused by corona virus, there are still many questions around it. Like can MERS-CoV spread from human to human? How can it affect humans?
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Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from the United States through his consultant Dr Ram Shukla, an infectious disease specialist who also researches MERS-CoV in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) tells us 12 important facts about this disease:
