Amysterious pneumonia(肺炎)outbreak inChina may be linked to a virus that has neverbeen seen before. Chinese scientists haveidentified the virus as a new type of coronavirus(冠状病毒). Most coronaviruses cause symptoms like thecommon cold. But coronaviruses are the same family ofviruses that inc...
A surge of infections was expected in the country this winter, China’s first without COVID-19 restrictions since the pandemic began in 2020. What is unusual, say epidemiologists, is the high prevalence of pneumonia in China. When COVID-19 restrictions were eased in other countries, influenza...
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Health officials around the world are keeping an eye on the outbreak of a new pneumonia-like virus that has killed at least six people and sickened some 300 others since it was first reported in China at the end of 2019. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
In late 2019, the local health authorities in Wuhan, China, declared a high load of individuals that had pneumonia with unknown etiology (1). Subsequently, in early January 2020, numerous medical diagnostic laboratories in China reported that a new coronavirus was the cause of occult pneumonia. ...
According to an official timeline released on April 6 on China's response to COVID-19, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission on Dec. 30 sent out an urgent notification to medical institutions under its jurisdiction about an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause in the city. The National Health...
Doctor: Hong Kong patient who spread mysterious pneumonia at hospital previously traveled to mainland China
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A mysterious pneumonia outbreak that has struck dozens of people and put China on edge is from the same family of viruses as the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), according to Chinese scientists. They’ve found a new coronavirus in 15 of 57 patients with the illness in the ...