MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome); a rare but severe respiratory illness with symptoms that include fever, cough and shortness of breath. There are no specific antiviral treatments or vaccines available for MERS. 7 known coronaviruses can infect people; 4 of these can cause the common cold, 3 can lead to deadly diseases: SARS, MERS and COVID-19.
In 2012, the coronavirus that came to be known as MERS-CoV infected a person in Jordan and soon appeared in Saudi Arabia. This was a decade after the emergence of SARS, the first dangerous coronavirus to spread around the world. The MERS virus jumped from bats to dromedary camels and then to people. Unlike the viruses responsible for the SARS epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic, the MERS coronavirus is rarely transmitted from human to human. People mainly catch MERS directly from infected animals.
Product dimensions: 11cm (L) x 13cm (W) x 13cm (H).