The first victim of the Wuhan coronavirus in Macao, a 52-year-old woman staying at a hotel, has put the Chinese enclave on alert just before “Year of the Rat” celebrations begin.
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The illness comes from a newly identified type of coronavirus, a family of viruses that can cause the common cold as well as more serious illnesses such as the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003 and killed about 800 people.
The recent confirmation that the disease can spread between humans has heightened fears as millions of Chinese travel during the annual Lunar New Year holiday.
The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus.
The MERS outbreak that has spread through health facilities in South Korea may have peaked, although two hospitals that treated people with the deadly respiratory disease have been sealed off, officials said.
Signs in McCarran International Airport that advertise to tourists the shows they might want to attend in Las Vegas have been joined by a poster from the CDC that warns travelers about a MERS virus they should stay away from.
Health officials confirmed the first case of an American infected with a mysterious virus that has sickened hundreds in the Middle East.
Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials – a novel coronavirus in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in China.
The latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people.