A mysterious virus is attacking China and currently no one knows what it is
After the SARS virus spread in the country over a decade ago, causing many casualties, the Chinese very much want to understand what lies ahead. A new and unfamiliar virus has so far caused a number of casualties, mainly from breathing difficulties, fever and pneumonia. The big question - is it a new and deadly epidemic?
A mysterious virus is attacking China and currently no one knows what it is
AP, shutterstock, getty images, reutersA new and unidentified virus that causes severe pneumonia is spreading in Wuhan city in central China, prompting the country's authorities to shut all patients up and raise hospital readiness. The Wuhan Health Bureau announced earlier this week that nearly 60 people have been diagnosed as carriers of the mysterious virus.
Experts try to identify the disease after raging the deadly SARS outbreak that hit China in 2003, causing the deaths of some 700 people in China and Hong Kong, and even spreading to the US and Canada, infecting thousands of people. poultry.
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To the full articleAccording to the Wuhan Health Bureau, 59 patients were diagnosed with the virus, including seven people in human condition as of last Sunday. Some patients operated stalls in the city's seafood market, which has since closed. All patients are in quarantine and 163 people who were in close contact were placed under medical supervision. The World Health Organization says the symptoms include fever, pneumonia and difficulty breathing.
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Singapore and Hong Kong governments are stepping up precautionary measures following the outbreak. Hong Kong hospitals have limited hospital visitation hours and require all visitors to wear face masks. The city has also improved the airport thermal imaging system to check the temperatures of travelers coming from Wuhan. At the train station connecting the city to China, additional manpower was assigned to carry out temperature tests.
The Singapore Ministry of Health announced that it is conducting temperature tests for passengers arriving on flights from Wahan. The Taiwan Disease Control Center has asked doctors and airport closers to inform them of patients traveling to Vahan and have any symptoms. The World Health Organization says it is monitoring the situation and "is in close contact with the national authorities in China."
Chinese authorities, as they do in crisis management, are trying to stop the spread of panic by censoring the Chinese social network Weibo and blocking the hashtag #WuhanSARS. While the Chinese media is reporting the outbreak, citizens who remember the media coverage of the SARS virus still do not trust information released by their government that "no human-to-human transmission of the mysterious disease has been observed so far."
