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No immediate cause for concern, epidemiologist tells DTE as MERS case detected in UAE

  • July 26, 2023
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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No immediate cause for concern, epidemiologist tells DTE as MERS case detected in UAE

Subject: Science and technology

Section: Health

Context:

  • The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a man had been infected with the deadly Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
  • Al Ain is a city in the emirate of Abu Dhabi on UAE’s border with Oman.
  • The man had no record of contact with dromedary camels, which spread the disease.

About MERS-CoV:

  • MERS-CoV is a viral respiratory disease belongs to the same family as the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).
  • MERS was first detected in 2012 in Saudi Arabia. But since then, it has been regularly reported from multiple countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
  • In total, 27 countries have reported cases since 2012, leading to 858 known deaths due to the infection and related complications.
  • MERS-CoV is also considered to be a coronavirus with a high mortality rate.
  • One in every three of officially reported cases have died. But the fact is that this is an overestimate of mortality because many of the subclinical cases are not documented.
  • Transmission:
    • MERS is a zoonotic disease. A person gets infected on coming in contact with dromedary camels. But cases of human-to-human transmission have been reported in the past.
    • The dromedary is not the only reservoir of MERS-CoV.
    • It is found in bats, cattle, sheep and goats as well.
    • Even more importantly, some of the largest number of cases during the 2012 MERS outbreak were reported from South Korea which does not have a native camel population.
  • Symptoms:
    • The main symptoms of MERS are fever, coughing and shortness of breath, and in some cases, pneumonia.
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