Suffer from recurrent common cold? Blame it on camels

Suffer from recurrent common cold?

Just like the dreaded Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), a common cold virus actually transmitted from camels to humans, a new study reveals.

It causes severe respiratory tract infections that are often fatal. Dromedaries were confirmed to be its animal source some time ago. ‘In our MERS investigations we examined about 1,000 camels for coronaviruses and were surprised to find pathogens that are related to ‘HCoV-229E’, the human common cold virus, in almost six percent of the cases,’ Drosten said. Further comparative molecular genetic analysis of common cold viruses in bats, humans and dromedaries suggests that this common cold virus was actually transmitted from camels to humans, said the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . (Read: 5 spices that deal with cold and cough naturally)

Source: IANS

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