The number of confirmed cases worldwide reach to 12 with yet another person in UK has been infected by new potentially deadly SARS-like virus. The person is the third victim from the same family, while this is the fourth case as a whole emerged in Britain.
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| Health Warning: SARS-like virus re-emerged infected 12 worldwide |
The
number of confirmed cases worldwide reach to 12 with yet another person in UK
has been infected by new potentially deadly SARS-like virus. The person is the
third victim from the same family, while this is the fourth case as a whole emerged
in Britain.
In September last year, a
49-year-old Qatari national was treated at a London hospital in September for
the virus. Five
people have died of the virus, according to the HPA — three in Saudi Arabia and
two in Jordan.
The
latest person infected with novel coronavirus, also known as NCoV, was a relative of two other
cases revealed earlier this week, who were admitted to intensive care units
(ICU’s) at two British hospitals; Britain’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) said
in a statement.
British
family’s first confirmed victim of the virus had recently travelled to West
Asia and Pakistan; while the other two family members had no recent travel
history.
The
HPA said the latest patient was “recovering from a mild respiratory illness and
is currently well’’.
The virus belongs to the same family
as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) - a coronavirus that surfaced in
China in 2002-03 and killed about 800 worldwide, 1 out of 10 infected was died
after contracting with deadly virus.
Symptoms common to both viruses
include severe respiratory illness, fever, coughing and breathing difficulties.
NCoV was identified when the WHO (World
Health Organization) issued an international warning in September 2012 saying a
virus previously unknown in humans had infected a Qatari man in Britain who had
recently been in Saudi Arabia.
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