falls under a larger family of coronaviruses. First identified in humans in the mid-1960s, coronaviruses are zoonotic, which means they can be transmitted between animals and people.The term gets its name from the Latin word “corona,” meaning halo or crown, which is what the virus looks like an electron microscope.
Despite being sequenced, the source of the virus has not been found, and new information continues to emerge regularly about its severity and spread.Initially, the virus was linked to a handful of people in Wuhan, many of whom worked at a seafood market. Scientists said they believed the illness was related to contact with animals and was not spread from human-to-human contact.when the head of a Chinese government expert team confirmed cases passed from one person to another.
However, in this case, early lab tests have ruled out a resurgence of SARS and its close cousin, Middle East respiratory syndrome .The virus was discovered in Wuhan but has since spread to several other Chinese cities. As of Monday, five cases were reported in Beijing, 14 in Guangdong and seven cases are suspected in other parts of China.Four deaths have been reported so far, all of which occurred in China. At least two of those cases involved men over the age of 60 with pre-existing conditions.
Canada has not gone so far as to screen individual travellers or take their temperatures. Instead, airports in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver will begin displaying electronic messages on screens asking anyone travelling from Wuhan who presents flu-like symptoms to notify a border services agent.
It’s SARS all over again from 2002-2003 😖
I hear its great with lime, ice cold of course
So Canada wants anyone coming to Canada to surrender to border security? No testing or temperature taking? And they say the risk of Canada getting it is low? Tell that to all the people that had SARS and families of the ones that died that the risk is low when they do nothing.
Is it too many of these?
ThanksChina first you destroy the environment and once again you cause a global pandemic with your diseases. SMH
The states are taking the right precautions, meanwhile Canada has an electronic sign asking travelers to give themselves up to border security lol I was definitely born on the wrong side of the border.
We don’t need a another epidemic wish agencies block people from China from arriving! Seriously I lived through SARS in Toronto!
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