The UN’s health agency says that the outbreak of the disease in the Chinese city of Wuhan is a never-before-seen strain belonging to a broad family of viruses ranging from the common cold to more serious illnesses such as SARS.
“We think that the source may have been animals sold at market and from there it passed to the human population,” he told AFP.The outbreak has caused alarm because of the link with SARS , which killed 349 people in mainland China and another 299 in Hong Kong in 2002-2003.At least 40 cases have been reported in Wuhan this year, and the outbreak has already claimed two lives.
Investigations carried out into the 700 or so people in Wuhan who came into contact with quarantined cases showed no one had passed on the virus, with the possible exception of one woman who claims she never went to the seafood market where the outbreak is thought to have started.Fontanet said the fact that the virus had spread beyond China was “starting to make us fear that interhuman transmission is possible.
The best way of containing any disease outbreak is to rapidly confirm the source, according to Raina MacIntyre, from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
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