Aspectos históricos de los coronavirus que afectan a humanos
- Joan March 1
- Anton Erkoreka 2
- 1 Grupo de Investigación de Historia de la Salud-IUNICS-UIB
- 2 Museo Vasco de Historia la Medicina. UPV/EHU
ISSN: 2255-0569
Year of publication: 2020
Issue Title: COVID-19
Volume: 35
Issue: 4
Pages: 13-17
Type: Article
More publications in: Medicina balear
Abstract
The present article summarizes the discovering of all coronavirus strains during all along the Twentieth Century, by using different bibliographic materials. First of all, are reviewed those who provoked zoonotic disease. Some later, since the Sixties on, we review the coronavirus which caused pathologies in humans. Finally, in 1975, all the aforementioned formed the family called coronaviridae. We study seven coronavirus strains that produced pathologies in humans, and further develop three of them, namely those that caused SARS (2003), MERS (2012), and Covid-19 (2020) pandemics. On the one hand, the historical origins of SARS and cov-id-19 have been located in Chinese territories of Yunnan and Wuhan. On the other hand, MERS was located in Arabian Peninsula. It is stressed here the substantial role of environmental preservation and other climatic factors in the geneses of pandemics. Human health is closely linked to animal environmental health.