The so-called novel coronavirus "is not a problem that any single affected country can keep to itself or manage all by itself," Margaret Chan said Monday in her closing remarks at the 66th World Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. The world needs to pull together its resources to properly tackle the virus which, Chan said, is her "greatest concern" at present. We do not know how people are getting infected. Until we answer these questions, we are empty-handed when it comes to prevention.
These are alarm bells. And we must respond," she said. Novel coronavirus is part of a family called coronaviruses, which cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, as well as a variety of animal diseases. However, the new virus is not SARS. Coronavirus reported in France Health workers infected with coronavirus So far, the infection appears to be geographically linked to the Arabian Peninsula.
Two small clusters of human-to-human transmission, from imported cases with travel history to the Arabian Peninsula, have been observed in Europe: in United Kingdom 2 cases and in France 1 case. Saudi Arabia informed WHO of two laboratory-confirmed cases in health care workers who were exposed to patients with confirmed MERS-CoV: a year-old man, who became ill on 2 May and is in a critical condition, and a year-old woman with a coexisting health condition, who became ill on 8 May and is in stable condition.
Although health-care-associated transmission of the virus had previously been observed in Jordan in April , this was the first time that health care workers had been diagnosed with MERS-CoV infection after exposure to patients. Concern remains that the virus may adapt to efficient human-to-human transmission. WHO continues to monitor the situation closely. The source of infection is not yet known. Based on what is known about coronaviruses in general and the accumulating evidence on this virus, MERS-CoV appears to have originated in bats.
Health workers infected with coronavirus How is dangerous new virus spreading? WHO tracks new virus to Middle East It "is not a problem that any single affected country can keep to itself or manage all by itself," Margaret Chan said Monday in her closing remarks at the 66th World Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
Although many of the cases have occurred on the Arabian Peninsula, people have died of the infection elsewhere.
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