The World Health Organization ( WHO) has warned of a new brand Corona-like virus that hits thousands in China. The raiding virus resembles one known as SARS.
Pneumonia broke out in China over the last weeks; people in the eastern parts of the country contacted the virus causing the disease.
The international body responsible for the world health released a statement saying the new cases of infection would be linked to a known strain of viruses belonging to the Corona family.
Experts pointed out that more information is needed to define methods of treating the infection.
The statement warns that most of the infections were concentrated in the Wuhan area in the Middle Eastern of China where 59 cases were monitored in the course of the last month only.
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Corona viruses cause a wide range of diseases such as the common cold (known also as influenza) and SARS.
The latter disease swept through dozens of the world in the first decade of the 21st century.
Chinese researchers excluded any relation between the new cases of infection and SARS along with the birds flu and the other of viruses hit glands and respiratory systems of humans and mammals.
They assured that new virus isn’t infective exceptionally as fierce as the SARS.
Some reports warn that the new disease may extend to both Hong Kong and South Korea.
People who had traveled to Wuhan recently contracted the disease.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States of America (USA) urge doctors across the world to be aware of the new virus especially at those who suffer symptoms resemble ones of Pneumonitis.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease. Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in southern China caused an eventual 8,098 cases, resulting in 774 deaths reported in 37 countries with the majority of cases in China and Hong Kong (9.6% fatality rate) according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
No cases of SARS have been reported worldwide since 2004.
In late 2017, Chinese scientists traced the virus through the intermediary of civets to cave-dwelling horseshoe bats in Yunnan.
Chinese health authorities have not been able to identify a mysterious strain of pneumonia that has infected dozens of people and put the rest of Asia on alert -- although they have ruled out a return of the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus.
"A total of 59 cases of unknown viral pneumonia have been reported in the city of Wuhan, central China, with seven patients in critical condition", the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said in a statement on Sunday. All patients are being treated in quarantine, and no deaths have been reported.
According WHO, symptoms of the pneumonia are mainly fever, with a number of patients having difficulty breathing, and chest radiographs showing invasive lesions of both lungs.
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