Which virus was more dangerous than this Coronavirus?
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Hepatitis
Viral hepatitis caused an annual 1.34 million deaths worldwide in 2015. While deaths due to other infectious diseases have declined, deaths due to viral hepatitis have actually increased—by 22%—since 2000, according to a WHO report.
Although five types of hepatitis exist—including hepatitis A, D, and E—hepatitis B and C are responsible for 96% of all hepatitis-related deaths. Most of these deaths are due to chronic liver disease and primary liver cancer.
Approximately 325 million people, or 4.4% of the world’s population, have viral hepatitis. And 1.75 million new infections of hepatitis C alone occur each year.
Despite a vaccine for hepatitis B and effective antivirals for hepatitis C, few people with viral hepatitis get a diagnosis because of limited access to affordable hepatitis testing. (Only 9% of people with hepatitis B and 20% with hepatitis C have received a diagnosis, according to the WHO.) Consequently, treatment reaches only a small fraction of those infected.
MERS
COVID-19 isn’t the only coronavirus in town these days. Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is caused by a rare but deadly coronavirus mostly found in Saudi Arabia.
Since it was first identified in 2012, MERS has infected 2,499 people and caused 861 deaths globally, according to the WHO. Clearly, that’s just a fraction of the numbers reported for COVID-19, but the difference is in the mortality rate. MERS has had a mortality rate as high as 37.2% compared with the current estimated mortality rate of 2% to 3% for COVID-19.
Like COVID-19, infection from MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) shows symptoms of fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Unlike COVID-19, MERS-CoV infection often stems from camels.
“Although most human cases of MERS-CoV infections have been attributed to human-to-human infections in health care settings, current scientific evidence suggests that dromedary camels are a major reservoir host for MERS-CoV and an animal source of MERS infection in humans,” the WHO warned.
No vaccine or specific treatment is currently available for MERS-CoV, but some are in development.
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