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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by jiofih on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:15PM (#22547627)
MERS has camels as hosts, is the deadliest by far and 1) camels are not exotic in the Middle East 2) you don’t need to eat it to be infected.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by smt1 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:20PM (#22547682)
Although MERS is more deadly than SARS-CoV-2, it looks it's less transmissible between people than SARS-CoV-2. I heard an epidemiologist theorize that it might be because people infected with SARS-CoV-2 shed the virus before they show any signs of COVID.

Maybe that's why MERS never spread widely outside of areas where camels don't exist widely.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by jiofih on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:42PM (#22548083)
Yeah, plus dead people tend to not socialize a lot.
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