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China coronavirus deaths rise to 17, heightening global alarm

a few years ago, one of the guys where I live was driving on a major highway and as he passed the tractors using bushhogs to mow the area around the side of the road, one threw a rock through his windshield and killed him.

If it’s your time, it’s your time. I would not worry about this, even if you are travelling to Chinal.

The coronavirus originated in Wuhan, where a seafood and animal meat market is thought to have been the center of the outbreak.

Meanwhile, the head of China’s Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control said Wednesday that the new virus had originated in wild animals sold at a seafood market in Wuhan.
The bureau’s director general, Gao Fu, referred to a paper published on Tuesday by a joint team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the People’s Liberation Army and the Institut Pasteur in Shanghai that concluded “the Wuhan coronavirus’ natural host could be bats … but between bats and humans there could be an unknown intermediate.”
The new virus and the SARS virus are both mutations of HKU9-1, a virus found in fruit bats, the researchers said, according to the South China Morning Post.

The virus causes a type of pneumonia. Symptoms include fever and difficulty in breathing.

The virus is spreading, including to Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Tianjin City. It is moving past China into Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and even a case confirmed in Washington state.