WHAT IS THE NEW VIRUS? Scientists have identified it as a new coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble under a microscope. The coronavirus family has many types that affect people. Some cause the common cold while others originating in ...
China, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Pharmacies in Wuhan are restricting customers to buying one mask at a time amid high demand and worries over an outbreak of a new coronavirus. The number of cases of the new virus has risen to over 400 in China and the death toll to 9, Chinese health...
What is a global public health emergency? 什么是全球公共卫生紧急事件? The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared (宣布) the new coronavirus (冠状病毒) outbreak a global public health emergency after the the spread ...
The good news is the Marburg Virus technically isn’t new; it was first discovered in 1967, where there were simultaneous outbreaks in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany, and Belgrade, Siberia. The bad news is that because it’s not highly transmissive and/or a disease of concern to the global...
of the virus. Second is the severity of the disease caused by the virus, and lastly, the societal impact of the disease. A disease is more likely to become a pandemic if it is caused by a new strain of a virus, as is the case with Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19. The ease ...
A major area of sudden outbreak of a virus, spreading speed of almost no one can stop, no one knows what terrible virus begins where the source of, only know that it can't be stopped, irreversible, incurable, the most important thing is, it is artificially created. ...
This is the first time this kind of virus — a coronavirus — has been labeled a pandemic, “but at the same time, we believe that it will be the first also to be able to be contained or controlled,” Tedros said. OUTBREAK? EPIDEMIC? PANDEMIC? WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
the virus may exist on a system but will not be active or able to spread until a user runs or opens the malicious host file or program. When the host code is executed, the viral code is executed as well. Normally, the host program keeps functioning after it is infected by the virus....
A new viral outbreak is spreading in Kerala, India. It’s called the Nipah virus. It's spread to humans by pigs and bats and can be deadly.
It's time to brush up on the vocabulary that can help you understand just what infectiousdiseaseexperts are trying to tell us. Outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics Anoutbreakis the sudden occurrence of a disease in a community, which has never experienced the disease before or when cases of that...