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A virus that has killed half of the people its known to have infected could pose a threat to the entire world, director-general of the United Nations World Health Organization Margaret Chan said at the 66th World Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.

What is a novel coronavirus?

The coronavirus family encompasses viruses of varying severity, causing illnesses from the common cold to SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).

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This strain, now being called the Middle East respiratory symptom coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, is different from any other coronavirus previously found in people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Symptoms include fever, cough and shortness of breath, leading to pneumonia in some cases. Health officials are still trying to pin down how it infects humans. Although the CDC says there is clear evidence of human-to-human transmission, it doesnt appear to spread as quickly and easily as SARS did in 2003. Since then, monitoring techniques have improved so that more viruses are being detected most of which, experts have said, will not pose any grave threats.

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Still, we understand too little about this virus when viewed against the magnitude of its potential threat, CNN quotes Chan as saying. We do not know where the virus hides in nature. We do not know how people are getting infected. Until we answer these questions, we are empty-handed when it comes to prevention. These are alarm bells. And we must respond, she said.

The WHO is monitoring infections worldwide: The current tally has 44 reported cases of infection since September 2012 and 22 deaths.

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New York, May 29 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified a new virus, similar to the dreaded Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, and has termed it as a 'threat to the entire world'.

The SARS-like virus termed as MERS has killed 24 people so far, with more than half of 44 people diagnosed with the disease, the New York Daily News reports.

Terming the virus as a threat, WHO Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan, said that her greatest and immediate concern is that the new coronavirus is emerging faster than people's understanding of its magnitude, adding that the virus cannot be managed or kept to itself by any single affected country.

Stating that WHO does not have necessary information about the virus like its origin and its mode of infection, Chan said that until the organization is capable of answering these questions, they cannot prevent the ever-spreading virus.

The report said that while the coronavirus causes the common cold, the new coronavirus, or MERS, has killed more than half of those who have been diagnosed with it.

Meanwhile, the report said that Dutch scientists have taken the unusual step of patenting the killer virus in an unusual move that might complicate finding a vaccine,.

However, the move has angered the WHO, according to Chan, who said that doing so is impeding the search for treatment, adding that WHO cannot allow making deals between scientists because of their personal wishes to take out intellectual property and publish in scientific journals.

But, the Dutch researchers said that they patented the virus in order to spark drug companies' interest in developing a vaccine and denied that they had kept the virus from anyone.

According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the symptoms of the virus includes fever, cough and shortness of breath.

Cases have so far been confirmed in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Tunisia, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.(ANI)

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A DEADLY new respiratory virus called MERS has struck in the Middle East, infecting 49 people, killing 27, and prompting a dire warning fromt he World Health Organisation.

Of the 49 known infections with the MERS-CoV virus, 27 have resulted in death, the organisation 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.

Doctors say people who have the disease should be isolated for at least 12 days to avoid spreading it.

In the report published online in the journal Lancet, French scientists said the first patient visited Dubai. He is thought to have caught MERS there before passing it onto the second patient, who had no travel history and with whom he shared a room for three days.

Health officials have previously noted MERS can be spread among people if they are in close contact and clusters of the illness have been spotted in countries including Britain, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia. Experts aren't sure how humans are catching the virus but think it may originate in animals like bats or camels.

In a speech on Monday in Geneva, the World Health Organization's Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan, said her greatest health concern is MERS. She called the ongoing outbreaks "alarm bells" and said the virus "is a threat to the entire world."

French doctors estimated the disease's incubation period to be from 9 to 12 days for the second case, longer than the 7 to 10 days previously reported by others. They said longer quarantines might be necessary to stop the virus' spread and noted people with underlying medical conditions could be at higher risk.

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