... MERS-CoV
Time
to panic! A new SARS-like virus found in human has all the potential to
cause a global pandemic. Meet the novel Coronavirus (nCOV or
MERS-CoV) - and yes, it's transmissible from human to human:
A
new SARS-like virus recently found in humans is "a threat to the entire
world," according to the director-general of the United Nations' World
Health Organization.
The so-called novel coronavirus "is not a
problem that any single affected country can keep to itself or manage
all by itself," Margaret Chan said Monday in her closing remarks at the
66th World Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
"We do not know where
the virus hides in nature. We do not know how people are getting
infected. Until we answer these questions, we are empty-handed when it
comes to prevention. These are alarm bells. And we must respond," she
said.
CNN has more:
Here.
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