Corona virus Infections

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS

The seven known coronavirus infections that make people sick range from mild to severe, depending on the virus type. This virus family is known to infect various animals, and is also known to mutate easily. Sometimes coronavirus types that infect animals (including bats, civet cats, and camels) mutate to infect humans, and this can have deadly consequences.

A mild-to-moderate coronavirus infection is like the common cold, according to the CDC. Worldwide, people get sick from the four coronavirus types that cause milder infections every day. But three types—the ones that cause SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)–have the potential to be fatal, and each of these has led to a significant global outbreak