Covid 19 And Sars

Unlike mers and covid 19 sars sars cov is a coronavirus that is now considered to be destroyed.

Covid 19 and sars. Sars mers and covid 19 are all infections caused by members of a group of viruses called coronaviruses. The first cases of covid 19 were reported in wuhan china in december 2019. The new coronavirus which causes a disease called covid 19 was first reported in wuhan china. In the first three months after covid 19 emerged nearly 1 million people were infected and 50 000 died.

Though the sars death rate was higher than covid 19 covid 19 has already claimed more. The 3 diseases all belong to the coronaviridae family. Covid 19 is caused by a new coronavirus. Covid 19 mers sars in january 2020 a novel coronavirus sars cov 2 was identified as the cause of an outbreak of viral pneumonia in wuhan china.

The virus that causes sars is known as sars cov while the virus that causes covid 19 is known as sars cov 2. Just like covid 19 it was first detected in china in 2002. Here s how the current situation compares to sars and mers. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals including camels cattle cats and bats.

Coronaviruses cause diseases in. In the next year there was a world outbreak with more than 8 000 cases. As some predicted covid 19 is related to sars in that they are both types of coronavirus along with mers. Sars severe acute respiratory syndrome so here is the good news.

Rarely animal coronaviruses can infect people and then spread between people such as with mers cov sars cov and now with this new virus named sars cov 2. The virus has a close resemblance to sars cov. There are also other types of human. Both covid 19 and sars are caused by coronaviruses.

The disease later named coronavirus disease 2019 covid 19 subsequently spread globally.