People wearing protective masks arrive at Beijing railway station to head home for the Lunar New Year on January 21, 2020. China has confirmed human-to-human transmission in the outbreak of a new SARS-like virus as the number of cases soared and the World Health Organization said it would consider declaring an international public health emergency. NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP.
Asia has seen multiple outbreaks of deadly diseases in recent years like the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) pandemic in the early 2000s, the 2009 swine flu pandemic, and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2012. But what is leaving many, including the World Health Organization (WHO), puzzled at the moment is a lung infection from the Chinese city of Wuhan that is now spreading worldwide. Identified as a coronavirus, it has killed at least four people and infected hundreds.
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When It Started
Number of Infected People
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What It Is and What It's Not
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