COVID-19: A History of recent Coronavirus
The COVOD-19 coronavirus pandemic has led to mass scientific conference cancellations, travel restrictions, social distancing, and other unprecedented prevention measures. How did we got to this point?
A novel coronavirus outbreak was first documented in Wuhan, Hubei province , China in December 2019. as of this writing, it has now been confirmed on six continents and in more than 100 countries. As the worlds health systems funnel resources into learning about, treating, and preventing infections in humans, new information is released daily. in this two-part article series, we fill first provide some History on coronaviruses to put this disease outbreak in perspective, and discuss global health security and global for pandemic response.
Secondly, we will offer guidance from the best trusted sources for prevention and planning in the work place at home.
What are coronaviruses?
Coronaviruses are the large family of zoonotic viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to serve respiratory diseases. Zoonotic means these viruses are able to be transmitted from animals to humans. There are Several coronavirus known to be circulating in different animals populations that have not yet infected humans. COVID-19 is the most recent to make the jump to the human infections.
Common signs of COVID-19 Infections
are similar to be common cold and include respiratory symptoms such as dry cough, fever, shortness of breath, and breath taking (Breathing) difficulties. in more serve cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure, and death.
The COVID-19 infection is spread from one person to spread via droplets produced from the respiratory system of infected people, often during coughing or sneezing. According to current data, time from exposure to on set of symptoms is usually between two and 14 days, with an average of five days.
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