New SARS-like virus infects British patient in tenth case globally

yahoo news ^ | Feb. 11, 2013 | Kate Kelland

[bgill]

A new virus from the same family as SARS that sparked a global alert last September has been found in a further patient in Britain, health officials said on Monday.

This latest case of infection with the new virus known as a coronavirus brings the total number of confirmed cases globally to 10, of which five have died.

The British patient, who had recently travelled to the Middle East and Pakistan, is receiving intensive care treatment in hospital in Manchester, northern England.

[bgill]

Here we go again. The middle east, the gift that keeps on giving.

[jiggyboy]

That’s a pretty good mortality rate there, 50% or more, yow.

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[vetvetdoug]

Coronavirus, highly infectious and rapidly causes tissue destruction. It is the cause of FIP in cats and a severe diarrhea in dogs and pigs.