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.

HEALTH

Consultant tells of battle to prevent deadly outbreak of Sars-like virus

15 May 2013

The tests on the 49-year-old man lying ill in St Thomas' Hospital in London last year were confusing. "The patient tested positive for coronavirus, but he also tested negative for each and every...

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Fear grips Saudi Arabia as coronavirus deaths reach 15

15 May 2013

Panic has gripped Saudis in the country's east, where most cases of a deadly novel coronavirus have been detected, as the death toll in the kingdom hits 15. Scores of people have reported to the...

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Saudi Arabia detects four new Sars-like cases

14 May 2013

Four more cases of the deadly coronavirus have been detected in Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said, raising the number of people infected from the Sars-like virus in the kingdom to 28,...

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The Saudi family struck by novel coronavirus like no other

14 May 2013

On the third day after his father's death from a respiratory infection, Hussein al-Sheikh began to feel feverish. Shortly afterwards, says the 27-year-old Saudi, "I was almost dead".

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Hong Kong on alert as France confirms more cases of Sars-like virus

14 May 2013

Hong Kong's Centre of Health Protection yesterday told doctors to be extra vigilant for suspected symptoms of a new Sars-like coronavirus, as new cases in France took the confirmed number of cases...

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New Sars-like virus could likely be passed among humans, says WHO

13 May 2013

World Health Organisation officials said on Sunday it seemed likely a new coronavirus that has killed at least 18 people in the Middle East and Europe could be passed between humans, but only...

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Opinion

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'Coronavirus belongs to same family as Sars'

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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Saudi Arabia reports new case of Sars-like coronavirus

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...

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Saudi man 'cured' of Sars family virus

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...

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PUBLIC HEALTH

Saudi boy in Hong Kong has flu, not Sars-like virus

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...

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HEALTH

Deadly virus won't spark Hong Kong Sars epidemic, scientists say

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.

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Sars story lands website boss in labour camp

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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