NEET2004ZoologyHuman Health and DiseasesActual
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Options
- Ais caused by a variant of Pneumococcus pneumoniae
- Bis caused by a variant of the common cold virus (corona virus)
- Cis an acute form of asthma
- Daffects non-vegetarians much faster than the vegetarians
Correct answer
B. is caused by a variant of the common cold virus (corona virus)
Step-by-step solution
SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) has now affected 30 countries on five continents, with more than 8,000 cases and more than 900 deaths. The disease is due to infection with the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). The genome of this virus has been completely sequenced. When viruses resembling SARS-CoV were isolated from Himalayan palm civets found in a live animal market in the Guangdong Province of China; it implicated these animals as the reservoir of the virus.