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Mers virusi

The Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) has killed more than 800 people since 2012.

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  • The UN health agency is convening over 300 scientists to figure out which viruses and bacteria could potentially spark another international outbreak
  • They will also consider the so-called ‘Disease X’ – an unknown pathogen that could cause a serious worldwide epidemic
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Warnings about the risks of bat coronaviruses causing human disease have gone unheeded for years and ‘our prolonged deafness now exacts a tragic price’, top scientists write in journal article.

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Responding to claims by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, national health authority says this was done for biosafety reasons and to ‘prevent secondary disasters caused by unidentified pathogens’.

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Researchers from Imperial College in London looked at how 11 countries had responded to the crisis and estimated how many lives had been saved by intervention.

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Not associating Wuhan with the virus in the naming of Covid-19 follows WHO best practice for naming diseases. Likewise, its travel recommendations are also consistent with its own guidelines, and in no way favour China.

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Containing the virus and assessing its economic impact are the priorities, observers say after US adviser predicts fall in agricultural products Beijing buys.

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Despite hard lessons learned from Sars in 2003, many Hong Kong organisations and educational institutions remain unaware of the need to devise guidelines for facing an epidemic of such a scale.

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The new contagion may be far less deadly than severe acute respiratory syndrome but it has already infected more than four times as many people.

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Documentary series airing as China battles coronavirus outbreak warns a new flu pandemic is inevitable, and points out it is the country where ‘virtually all of the deadly influenza viruses’ of past 50 years have emerged.

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