The new Sars-like virus probably originated from an infected bat and was passed to humans via other animals, a veteran Hong Kong virologist said on Monday.
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Coronavirus
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses which include the common cold and Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome). They cause respiratory infections in humans and animals, with four or five strains currently affecting humans. They are a species in the genera of virus belonging to the subfamily Coronavirinae in the family Coronaviridae.
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Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry has confirmed that a second person in the kingdom has contracted a new respiratory virus related to Sars, bringing to three the number of those sickened by it in the...
5 Nov 2012
A Saudi man has been cured after he was diagnosed with a mystery illness from the same family as the deadly Sars virus and from which one person died, the kingdom’s health ministry said on Sunday...
8 Oct 2012
A Saudi boy in a Hong Kong hospital has the flu, not the deadly Sars-like virus that emerged in the Middle East last month, the Centre for Health Protection confirmed on Monday, when the four-year...
27 Sep 2012
The coronavirus that has recently emerged in the Middle East and killed one person has been confirmed as a different bug from the one that caused the deadly Sars epidemic in 2003.
Baoding police in Hebei have sent a website owner to labour camp for two years for spreading a rumour about a case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) at a military hospital.
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23 Guangdong health officials produce an internal report on cases of atypical pneumonia in the province. Rumours of mystery killer disease spread in Guangzhou.
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Part 1 Hong Kong's experience
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Better cross-border co-operation on infectious disease outbreaks is expected thanks to the opening of mainland-authorised laboratories at the University of Hong Kong.
Nobel laureate says Hong Kong needs to look beyond markets and banking
The city would do well to invest in basic science, a Nobel laureate said in praising moves by a university to...
Q Who do you think are the heroes of the Sars outbreak?
I think the frontline health-care workers, the microbiologists in the labs and the social workers are the heroes of this...
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