What to know about coronaviruses
Coronaviruses are types of viruses that
typically affect the respiratory tracts of birds and mammals, including humans.
Doctors associate them with the common cold, bronchitis, pneumonia, and severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and they can also affect the gut.
These viruses are typically
responsible for common colds more than serious diseases. However, coronaviruses
are also behind some more severe outbreaks.
Over the last 70 years,
scientists have found that coronaviruses can infect mice, rats, dogs, cats, turkeys,
horses, pigs, and cattle. Sometimes, these animals can transmit coronaviruses
to humans.
Most recently, authorities identified a new coronavirus outbreak
in China that has now reached other countries. It has the name coronavirus
disease 2019, or COVID-19.
In this article, we explain
the different types of human coronaviruses, their symptoms, and how people
transmit them. We also focus on three particularly dangerous diseases that have
spread due to coronaviruses: COVID-19, SARS, and MERS
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