corona virus
corona virus Corona viruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, corona viruses cause respiratory tract infections that are typically mild, such as the common cold , though rarer forms such as SARS , MERS and COVID-19 can be lethal. Symptoms vary in other species: in chickens, they cause an upper respiratory tract disease , while in cows and pigs they cause diarrhea . There are no vaccines or antiviral drugs to prevent or treat human corona virus infections. Discover Corona viruses were discovered in the 1960s. [8] The earliest ones discovered were infectious bronchitis virus in chickens and two viruses from the nasal cavities of human patients with the common cold that were subsequently named human corona virus 229E and human corona virus OC43 . [...