The live dashboard pulls data from the World Health Organization shows all confirmed and suspected cases of coronavirus, along with recovered patients and deaths.
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Ask patients who appear to have the flu if they, or someone they have been in contact with, recently returned from China. If so, specimens should be sent to the local health department. Medscape Medical News
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The country has shut down all travel to and from Wuhan and nearby cities in an attempt to curb the spread of a new virus
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The world is in the midst of a global “superbug” crisis. Antibiotic resistance has been found in numerous common bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and salmonellosis, making them difficult – if not impossible – to...
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Canada Says Wife Of First nCoV Patient Also Has Virus
Another alarming development in the global coronavirus outbreak has been confirmed: Public health officials in Ontario are preparing to announce that the wife of Canada's first...
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West Nile virus (WNV) inhibits autophagy -- an essential system that digests or removes cellular constituents such as proteins -- to induce the aggregation of proteins in infected cells, triggering cell death and brain inflammation (encephalitis),...
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Scientists have detected Marburg virus in fruit bats in Sierra Leone, marking the first time the deadly virus has been found in West Africa. Eleven Egyptian rousette fruit bats tested positive for active Marburg virus infection. The presence of...
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Wuhan Mayor Offers To Resign As Coronavirus Cases Near 3,000; Supply Shortages Intensify
Update (0700ET): Chinese health officials have confirmed an additional fatality tied to the virus.
Here's the latest roundup from Chinese state...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the city of Wuhan on Monday to meet with health officials and examine the response to the outbreak of a coronavirus that has killed 80 people.Wuhan is the center of the outbreak and people there and in several...
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Containing The Huawei 'Virus'?
Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times,
The deadly virus originating out of the central Chinese city of Wuhan is making headlines, and well it should. There’s the potential for this new...
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As many of you are familiar by now, there is an outbreak of a new coronavirus that originated from Wuhan, China. It is a pretty serious issue as it seems that despite the best efforts by China, the virus has managed to spread to various parts of the...
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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. has five confirmed cases of the new virus from China, all among people who traveled to the city at the center of the outbreak, health officials said Sunday.
Two new cases were reported Sunday — one in Los Angeles County in...
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N95 Virus Masks Sell Out Across The U.S.
We noted last week how worldwide and U.S. internet searches for "virus mask" and "n95 masks" have exponentially increased as the deadly coronavirus spreads across the world.
Our report from...
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China's central government announced Sunday that it's taking the reins in response to the outbreak of the coronavirus from local officials in Hubei province, home to the virus' city of origin, Wuhan.
Ma Xiaowei, the head of the country's National...
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The outbreak of a new type of virus was confirmed earlier this month, and while medics are working on a vaccine against the deadly disease, China and other countries are trying their best to stop it from spreading and quarantining all the patients,...
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A patient in Southern California is the third person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with the new pneumonia-like virus from China, health officials said.Read more...
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- So far, this novel coronavirus from China (2019-nCoV) appears to be a milder virus than SARS, but that could mean it has the potential to spread further and wider than SARS, researchers argued.
While the virus seems...
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The case comes on the heels of confirmed cases in Chicago and Washington state.
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Hong Kong on Saturday declared a new coronavirus outbreak as an “emergency” — the city’s highest warning tier — as authorities ramped up measures to reduce the risk of further infections. The announcement came as city...
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The central Chinese city at the epicentre of a SARS-like virus outbreak is building a second new hospital within weeks to treat cases, as angry patients faced hours-long waits at medical facilities overwhelmed with patients of a disease that has...
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