After dozens of people have mysterious lung infection, the virus's genetic sequencing revealed that it was the strain of the corona virus, which causes SARS

• Warning at hospital entrance in China due to illness // Photo: AP

The outbreak of pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which is reported in Israel today, is probably now officially linked to a new mutation of the corona virus that has previously caused SARS as well as Mars. Two diseases that erupted in South Korea and China and that have plagued many victims.

However, in contrast to these two versions of the corona virus, it is clear that the current mutation is less lethal and out of 59 reported patients, none died from the disease. The World Health Organization is holding a hearing on Thursday with the Chinese health authorities, which has made a very quick operation to identify the new pathogen.

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Panic in China and Asia began in December after 59 pneumonia patients were found in the city who attacked both sides of the lung when the patients also suffered from fever. The new inflammation that erupted among people who bought meat in the seafood market in the city, which also sells animal and bird meat, was not identified as a known disease and there was a suspicion that this was a new breed of viral disease that had skipped from wildlife to humans.

It should be noted that both SARS and Mars disease began in animals and passed on to humans as a result of eating animal meat. Following the diagnosis of a new type of virus, alertness has risen in all of East Asia due to past experience with SARS that erupted in 2002, spread to 37 countries, infecting 8,000 people and killing 774 people, the same way that was first discovered in Saudi Arabia in 2012, killing 851 people today .

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In light of this, there was concern that the new disease could also be fatal and it was unclear which virus was exactly. In light of this, the authorities in China have been working on the genetic mutation of the virus and it turned out to be a new strain of the corona virus, and fortunately this version of the virus is less deadly than Mars and SARS and no patient died as a result of supportive treatment provided by the Chinese medical authorities.

Beyond the fact that this time it is a weaker strain, it also turns out that it does not pass through the air and none of the staff treating patients are infected with the virus. In addition, the World Health Organization expressed satisfaction with China's current response to the new virus, noting that the administration has been through since the failure to report and treat SARS, which the Chinese government initially concealed. However, the World Health Organization still points out that more in-depth research on the new virus needs to be done to understand and develop dedicated drugs for it.