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BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua) — Chinese research groups have conducted autopsies on 29 COVID-19 patient bodies and found the novel coronavirus remains in their lungs after death, a Chinese expert said Tuesday. Autopsies also showed severe damage to the patients’ immune system, which could be “a very important factor” in their deaths, said Wang Guiqiang, […]
MERS-CoV refers to a viral respiratory illness — Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) — that’s caused by a coronavirus (CoV), the same family of viruses that can cause the common cold. MERS-CoV was first reported in Saudi Arabia. Since then, it’s been reported in other countries in the Middle East and in Africa, Europe, Asia […]
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is an infectious disease characterized by flu-like symptoms that can progress rapidly to potentially life-threatening breathing problems. Several types of hantaviruses can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. They are carried by several types of rodents, particularly the deer mouse. You become infected primarily by breathing air infected with hantaviruses that are shed in […]