Question 1

what is the main difference between sars and pneumonia?

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None: Sars is a viral pneumonia with systemic systems - i.e. It is a specific kind of pneumonia.  Pneumonia is simply any infection involving the lung; fungi, viri, and bacteria can all cause pneumonia in humans.

Question 2

what is the main difference between
sars and flu ?

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SARS vs influenza: Both of these viral infections are bad news - SARS is worse, since there's no good antiviral treatment or vaccine, whereas at least flu has antiviral medication and a vaccine that can help tremendously. SARS is a coronavirus (looks like a little crown under an electron microscope). Flu is an orthomyxovirus. Good hygiene practices go a long way in preventing these diseases. Luckily no SARS right now.

Question 3

what is the main difference between swine flu and sars?

Accepted Answer

Viral type: The SARS illness was caused by a coronavirus and "swine flu" is the influenza subtype H1N1.  Both result in a severe pneumonia and can result in multiple organ failure leading to death.  The mortality rate of SARS was much higher than the pandemic H1N1, as was the propensity to spread via the air.

Question 4

what is the difference between influenza and sars?

Accepted Answer

2 different viruses: SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome was an explosive outbreak of adult respiratory distress syndrome that started in Hong Kong in 2003.  Within weeks of the outbreak it was determined that SARS was caused by a novel coronavirus.  It was found that this virus infected civets and horseshoe bats which were the zoonotic natural reservoirs. Influenza virus is entirely different.

Question 5

what does "covid-19" mean compared with other outbreaks, and what is the difference between covid-19 and sars-cov-2?

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COVID 19: SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes the COVID 19 disease. The disease is more contagious than many past outbreaks (like SARS-CoV - the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or Ebola).  Unlike outbreaks with more common human Coronaviruses, this has significant death rate attached.

Question 6

what's the difference between covid-19, novel coronavirus, wuhan coronavirus, and sars-cov-2?

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COVID -19: The name of the virus that causes Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).  This is considered to be a "novel" coronavirus because humans have not had reported illnesses from it before. Some people have called it "Wuhan Coronavirus" as it appears to have originated in Wuhan, China. That is not a medical term.

Question 7

what's the difference between rds,  ards and sars?

Accepted Answer

Definition: Adult respiratory distress syndrome is a condition which has multiple triggers and a complex pathophysiology.  Sars is a viral infection which has the capacity to cause ards.

Question 8

is there any difference between each sex's risk of contracting the sars-cov-2?

Accepted Answer

Lack of evidence: There is some evidence about worse outcomes in males, among ill people. But this evidence is not enough to establish a radical different treatment in comparison to woman. Besides, this information is only about outcomes and it is not related to spreading disease characteristics or susceptibility to get the disease. It means that all preventive measures must be applied equally.

Question 9

what is the difference between ards and sars?

Accepted Answer

Definition: Adult respiratory distress syndrome is a condition which has multiple triggers and a complex pathophysiology.  Sars is a viral infection which has the capacity to cause ards.

Question 10

what does "covid-19" mean compared with other infections, and what is the difference between covid-19 and sars-cov-2?

Accepted Answer

Disease vs virus: COVID-19 is the name of the infection (for COronaVirus Infectious Disease 2019).  SARS-CoV-2 is the formal name for the virus that causes it.  (Similar to the difference between AIDS, the disease; and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.)

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