Signs and symptoms Middle East respiratory syndrome

symptoms of mers.

early reports compared virus severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars), , has been referred saudi arabia s sars-like virus. first person, in june 2012, had seven-day history of fever, cough, expectoration, , shortness of breath. 1 review of 47 laboratory confirmed cases in saudi arabia gave common presenting symptoms fever in 98%, cough in 83%, shortness of breath in 72% , myalgia in 32% of people. there frequent gastrointestinal symptoms diarrhea in 26%, vomiting in 21%, abdominal pain in 17% of people. 72% of people required mechanical ventilation. there 3.3 males every female. 1 study of hospital-based outbreak of mers had estimated incubation period of 5.5 days (95% confidence interval 1.9 14.7 days). mers can range asymptomatic disease severe pneumonia leading acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards). kidney failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation (dic), , pericarditis have been reported.