The Beijing-funded researchers acknowledged that there was a “high risk of spillover to humans, either through direct transmission or facilitated by intermediate hosts” when they shared their findings in the journal Cell.
MERS is a respiratory disease that may be transmitted from people to animals and vice versa. In extreme circumstances,
It may be lethal and produces fever, coughing, dyspnea, diarrhea, and vomiting. MERS has only previously been detected in two.
US patients, both of whom tested positive in May 2014 and were connected to Middle Eastern travel. The virus has no known vaccination.
The coronavirus known as HKU5-CoV-2 is a member of the merbecovirus family of viruses. Minks and pangolins,.
