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SARS-CoV pandemic in India (2003 to 2020) - An update
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SAROJINI.K , SMILINE GIRIJA A.S
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As the emergence of coronavirus continues there is a necessity to go much deeper and analyze the previous strains to track the mutations. This review gives an overview on the SARS-CoV outbreaks and pandemics in India. Articles related to SARS infection were collected from search engines like Pubmed, Google Scholar, Cochrane. Two primary Chinese databases namely CNKI and Wantang were used for biomedical research. The relevant articles were collected from the period from 2000 to 2020 to date. The lessons learned from SARS and MERS might have contributed to the institution of more efficient preventive measures in healthcare settings. It is required to understand and do the complete research on the emergence and re-emergence of coronaviruses and to understand the change in proteins and genome. In the future, any pandemic with the same genome can be predicted, tackled, and prevented. Vaccines can be prepared effectively at earlier stages of a pandemic. In conclusion, the SARS outbreak taught us many lessons, but that of the necessity of developing new antiviral therapies was not learned. The lack of progress we have detailed concerning antivirals over the past decades is equally relevant to the development of coronavirus vaccines, for essentially the same reasons. To gather with the emergence of the SARS-CoV 2, we hope that the articles in this series will help change the attitude of researchers and funding policy makers this time around.
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Coronavirus; CoV; SARS; Emerging pathogen; Pandemic, Respiratory infections; Zoonosis
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.179
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