The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are warning health officials of an emerging new virus outbreak that has not been seen before and that is highly lethal.
The new virus, a type of corona virus, is infecting patients in the Arabian pennisula and is apparently easily transmitted person-to-person. It presents with flu-like severe respiratory depression and so far has killed 8 of the 22 patients known to have been infected.
There have been no reported cases in the United States yet, but several fatal cases have been reported in the UK.
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