Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

The purpose of this booklet is to provide important information related to spreading of most
dangerous disease Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on the global level. This
booklet Booklets can be a great way to make people aware about transmission, epidemiology,
clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment. MERS has emerged as one of the most dangerous
disease on the global level and one of the most worry thing associated with this virus is that, no
such medicine has been manufactured which can treat this virus and therefore left only one
option for us which is prevention and maintaining safe environment from this virus
In earlier stage transmission disease are not well understood. MERS coronavirus is similar to
other virus which is linked with bat coronavirus. This kind of virus is already detected in camels,
bats because of which it has spread almost every Middle East countries (Azhar, et al. 2014).
Various researches have been conducted but still clarity about its spread is unknown. It has been
found that this kind of virus mainly spread due to close contact between animals with persons as
well as from infected person to other person. One of the latest examples is spreading of
Coronavirus in Asian region started from China. This virus has taken lives of more than thousand
people in China and is spreading rapidly on the global level. It has been explored that this virus
has the ability to live for almost eight days on door locks which makes this virus more dangerous
than other virus. Still researcher are not able to find cure for this virus and therefore they are
helpless to keep inflected people in insolation from their family and friend which has created
tense situation on the global level in terms of community setting.
MERS coronavirus results in contamination in the form of range of illness related to respiratory
system, right from asymptomatic or insignificant to deadly. At present epidemiologic proof that
main reason for spreading of this virus is direct contact of humans but there is no evidence that
products which are related to camel are responsible for spread of this disease (Yang et al., 2014).
It has been found that in some MERS case direct contact of patient was not reported which were
suffering from symptomatic MERS. Research are continued to explore those additional
mechanism which may link with transmission process of this virus. It is essential to provide
related information from health point of view in order to enhance defensive suggestions. It has
been explored that transmission of this virus has been found in various health care settings in
which this virus has spread from patient to medical care provider and from patient in healthcare
setting to other patient. In addition, there may be chances where testing patient for symptoms
will be little bit difficult due to some non- specifications.
Even people which are offering health care services related to this MERS are also being infected
with MERS and therefore appropriate measures must be taken to decrease the risk associated
with transmission of this virus from infected patient. Therefore it is important to educate them to
get training related to these situations on the global level.
This virus has emerged as one of the dangerous virus which is responsible for severe respiratory
issue. According to reports around 37.1% cases were reported regarding fatal situation. At
September, 2012 identification of this virus was reported on large scale (Assiri et al., 2013).
Illnesses were reported onset April 2012 on document. This virus has been identified health risk
on the global platform. Travel has been recognized as one of the key driving factor related to
spread of this virus such as Kuwait, Oman, UAE and so on (Al-Abdallat et al., 2014).