Microbiology
Virus.
Epidemiologic Risks
There are a variety of coronaviruses, often served with a lime in Mexico. Some are human to human. SARS started in bats and MERS exists in camels where then jump to humans and then spread human to human.
Syndromes
Human coronavirus is a cause of the cold: human coronaviruses.
SARS and MERS cause severe pneumonia with outbreaks.
Treatment
None.
Notes
SARS may be a Frankenvirus, the result of recombination of a variety of bat viruses in bat cave, although not the cave beneath stately Wayne manor (PubMed).
Last update: 05/05/18