“중국 우한폐렴 바이러스, 사스와 비슷… 유사도 80% 달해”
A mysterious pneumonia outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan that sickened dozens of people maybe a virus that’s from the same family as SARS.
According to South China Morning Post, researchers from China and Australia concluded that the new type of coronavirus is about 80 percent similar in genetic structure to the SARS virus, which killed hundreds of people in China and Hong Kong a few years ago.
Coronaviruses cause respiratory and intestinal diseases.
A Chinese researcher said the new coronavirus may have originated in bats and then spread to other animals and humans at a now-closed fish market in Wuhan.
Out of 41 patients, one died and seven are in critical condition.
#Pneumoniavirus #China #SARS
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