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LONDON - Scientists have worked out how a deadly new virus which was unknown in humans until last year is able to infect human cells and cause severe, potentially fatal damage to the lungs. The finding, published in the journal Nature, came as the... 
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Last September a doctor in a Saudi hospital was fired for reporting a new, deadly strain of the coronavirus.
Ed Rybicki's insight:
It could be, it could just be, that this is not alarmist - that it is, in fact, a sober warning for what could be coming. The Middle East is now a world air transport hub; there is a LOT more movement of people in and out of it, and of livestock into it, than ever before - so time may be ripe for the emergence of a new threat to humans.
Let's hope not....
Stephen Korsman's comment,
March 16, 2013 8:06 AM
Fired??? And the "HIV can be cured" lot are NOT fired??
Mitch Saruwatari's curator insight,
June 6, 2013 9:40 AM
Great intuitive medicine and shared information helped identify and better define the scope of this outbreak. However, it's sad there are still organizations such as the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health that choose to ignore the early signs of potentially global infectious agents. |
It is unprecedented how quickly people are finding things out about this new virus - but then, the technology is so advanced these days, that we should HOPE they would. Especially if it takes off....