articleStatPearlsMar 20, 2020Closed access

Features, Evaluation and Treatment Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale" · Unifor · +3 more institutions

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), viral diseases continue to emerge and represent a serious issue to public health In the last twenty years, several viral epidemics such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) in 2002 to 2003, and H1N1 influenza in 2009, have been recorded Most recently, the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 In a timeline that reaches the present day, an epidemic of cases with unexplained low respiratory infections detected in Wuhan, the largest metropolitan area in China's Hubei province, was first reported to the WHO Country Office in China, on December 31, Published literature can trace the beginning of…

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Keywords
  • Outbreak
  • Medicine
  • Pandemic
  • Etiology
  • Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
  • Public health
  • Middle East respiratory syndrome
  • China
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