A new SARS-like virus recently found in
humans continues to spread -- with the
worldwide total now at 49, the World
Health Organization said Wednesday. Of the 49 known infections with the
MERS-CoV virus, 27 have resulted in
death, the organization said. The latest deaths were reported in Saudi
Arabia. The Saudi health ministry said
Wednesday that three people died from
their infections in the country's eastern
region. The virus is "a threat to the entire
world," the WHO's general director said
Monday. 5 things to know about the coronavirus 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. However, "all of the European cases
have had a direct or indirect connection
to the Middle East," the WHO said earlier
this month. But "in France and the
United Kingdom, there has been limited
local transmission among close contacts who had not been to the Middle East but
had been in contact with a traveler
recently returned from the Middle East." On Tuesday, a patient died in France
after having contracted the virus during
a trip to the Middle East, the WHO
reported.Coronaviruses 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. The WHO recently gave it a more specific
name: Middle East respiratory symptom
coronavirus, or MERS-CoV. It acts like a cold virus and attacks the
respiratory system, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention has said.
But symptoms, which include fever and
a cough, are severe and can lead to
pneumonia and kidney failure. Health officials do not yet know much
about how the virus spreads, which
makes it hard for scientists to prevent
infections, Chan said. The WHO is calling for the world to pull
together its resources to study and
tackle the virus. New virus is a 'threat to the entire
world'

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