When emergency departments and acute care floors deal with overcrowding and/or understaffing throughout the year, the flu season can make a bad situation even worse.
MERS-CoV is a respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus. It is believed that the virus is spread through an infected person’s respiratory secretions, but the exact method of infection is not yet known.
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe, often fatal illness that can have a fatality rate of 60-90%. Ebola outbreaks have occurred primarily in remote areas in Central and West Africa near tropical rain forests.
