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World Health Organization is expressing increasing concern about
virus that is similar to the respiratory disease
as SARS. The WHO calls the newly named
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV-. Most
of MERS have been reported in the Middle
, mainly in Saudi Arabia. But cases have also
found in other countries, including Italy, Tunisia, Jordan,
and FranceSince September the WHO has been informed
more than 50 laboratory-confirmed cases of MERS. At
30 people with the infection have died. WHO
Gregory Hartl says public health experts need to
how humans get infected in order to be
to control it. And, he says experts need
develop ways to treat the diseaseMr.. Hartl says
far all of the confirmed cases of the
have had something in common. All the cases
had a travel connection to the Arabian Peninsula.
. Hartl says there have been very few cases
infected people returned home and transmitted the virus
other people. But two cases in France suggest
close contact can cause the virus to spread
person to person. A man sharing a hospital
with a patient with MERS later developed the
himself. A new study published online by the
medical journal suggests that people with MERS should
kept away from other people for twelve daysThe
general of the WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, has
the MERS virus as a "threat to the
world." Symptoms of the disease include cough, fever
difficulty breathing. For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn
.
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