COVID 19
Disease Name: CoronaVirus Disease 2019 (COVID 19)
First Incidence Place and Date: WUHAN, CHINA, ASIA in December 1,2019.
Disease Symptoms: COUGHING, RISE IN TEMPERATURE, FEVER, DIFFICULTIES IN BREATHING, TIREDNESS, AMONG OTHERS. For more details on symptoms, check the World Health Organization's site(WHO's official website).
Mode of Transmission: From one person to the other through droplets from sneezing or cough(mostly).
Definition of the disease
Coronavirus A.K.A COVID 19 is a group of Ribonucleic acid viruses that causes infections in birds and mammals like as a human. It leads to respiratory infections in human. The commonest one is an upper respiratory infection.
History
The disease was first discovered in the 90s, around 1930 in birds(known as the Infectious Bronchitis Virus IBR). Around the 1940s, two more were discovered in Mouse Hepatitis Virus, MHV and Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus, TGV. Much was not spoken about this disease though it was still in existence until it became pandemic and started to affect a lot of people (and claiming lives) in Wuhan, Hubei China and the world at large.
In the New York State, the disease was confirmed on March 1, 2020.
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