Should you be worried about the novel coronavirus? What we know about the outbreak so far
and infected thousands there and outside the country, despite unprecedented quarantines and travel lockdowns. Did the virus spread from bats?
The market –– now shut –– offered a range of exotic wildlife for sale, including live foxes, crocodiles, wolf pups, giant salamanders, snakes, rats, peacocks, porcupines, and camel meat. More investigation would be needed from samples from the market before conclusive answers on zoonosis.The new virus comes from a large family of what are known as coronaviruses, some causing nothing worse than a cold.
All patients studied developed pneumonia, most had a fever, three-quarters of them were coughing and more than half had trouble breathing. According to Arnaud Fontanet, head of the department of epidemiology at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the new strain is the seventh known type of coronavirus that humans can contract.
Chinese scientists have also confirmed the virus is passing from person to person without any contact with the now-closed market.Scientists at the University of Hong Kong currently mapping the outbreak warned their latest models show the number of actual infections was likely to be much higher than the official tolls, which only account for those who have been found and have tested positive.
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