London (Reuters) – a new and potentially lethal virus of

the same family as SARS and that was discovered in a

patient in London last week seems to not expand

easily from one person to another, said Friday the

World Health Organization (who).

in an update on the virus, which so far

caused the death of a Saudi man and seriously ill to a

patient Katari, the United Nations health agency said that

was working with partners international to understand

better the risk to public health.

“by the information available so far, it seems that

novel coronavirus may not be transmitted easily from

person to person”, said the who in a statement.

entity issued Sunday a global alert saying that

< p> a new virus had infected a 49 years Katari who had

recently traveled to Saudi Arabia, where another man had

dead by the same agent.

on Tuesday reported that the patient Katari is in State

critic and is being treated at a hospital in London. not

have been confirmed new cases of infection with the virus,

added the who.

the new virus shares some symptoms with SARS

or severe acute respiratory syndrome, other coronavirus, that

it emerged in China in 2002 and resulted in the death of around of

one-tenth of the 8,000 people infected across the world.

both patients infected with the new virus have suffered

failure kidney.

“given the severity of the two confirmed cases by

laboratory, who is still monitoring the situation in order to

< p""> bieden een passend antwoord, expertise en steun aan hun

Lid-Staten”, zei de release van the who.

wetenschappers van het Europees centrum voor de preventie en bestrijding van

ziekten (ECDC) zei dat de virologische resultaten

initialen en tijd gescheiden van slechts twee gevallen

bevestigd suggereren dat de infectie bron dier hebben zou.

deze voorwaarden zijn bekend als zoönosen.

“is vrij waarschijnlijk de oorsprong van zoönoses en (heeft) een

verschil in gedrag met betrekking tot SARS”, schreef

wetenschappers in een studie van “snelle communicatie” gepubliceerd

in het Publicatieblad Eurosurveillance.

wie zei dat het werkt met verschillende laboratoria

landen om ervoor te zorgen beschikbaar detectie test ding voor

mogelijk.