NCoV Virus Deadlier Than SARS or Other Common Cold Viruses
A France man has been hospitalized with a new possible deadly virus that’s similar to the common cold virus.
The man, who was hospitalized in April, contracted the NCoV or the novel coronavirus, according to the country’s health ministry.
The virus has been found in humans with scattered cases occurring throughout the Middle East; but, most especially, Saudi Arabia. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 16 of the 31 people who have contracted the World Health Organization-dubbed virus have died from it.
Infection disease specialists have repeatedly said the virus is very hard to get.
France’s Health Ministry said the hospitalized man had just come back from traveling to the United Arab Emirates, located on the Arabian Peninsula.
The CDC said NCoV is caused by the coronavirus, which causes the common cold, and it will also attack the respiratory system.
It’s also been equated to the SARS coronavirus, which is a severe acute respiratory disease and has been contained since 2004. Though the NCoV is a newly found virus, it appears to be deadlier than SARS. Less than 800 people of the approximate 8,000 people who have contracted SARS have died. That’s one-tenth of the infected.
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