Potentially Deadly Virus Related to SARS Appears Not Easily Spread by Marc Santora. The New York Times. September 30, 2012.
While a newly discovered strain of a virus related to SARS has been discovered, public health officials have indicated that it seems not easily spread from person to person. World Health Officials are pressing to develop a diagnostic test which they advise to be used only in the case of severely ill patients so as to not overload the healthcare system. SARS is an disease of concern after a 2002 outbreak in China that affected 8,000 and killing one in ten victims. However that variant of the SARS virus differs from the new discovered strain.
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