What is the coronavirus?

OTHER RECENT EPIDEMICS

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV) ki

• Identified in 2003, first infected humans in China in 2002 Killed nearly 650 people in China/Hong Kong in 2002-2003 Thought to have come from bats, spread to civet cats to humans

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV)

• First identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 Over 800 killed in Middle East Came from dromedary camels to humans

NEW STRAIN New China strain SARS-like virus

• First identified in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China Several other countries, too, report infections in months to follow.
• Wuhan’s seafood market centre of outbreak.
• Human-to-human transmission