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SARS-like virus no cause for concern:
China
Sunday September 30, 2012 08:09:33 AM,
IANS
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Beijing: Chinese
health authorities have tried to ease public concerns after two
people in the Middle East were stricken by an illness resembling SARS.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Monday issued a global alert
after a Qatari man suffered from acute respiratory problems
following his return from Saudi Arabia.
People do not need to panic given because the previously unknown
virus still needs probe, and it has not spread widely, the
People's Daily Friday quoted the Centre for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) as saying.
The WHO said Monday that a 49-year-old Qatari national has been
reported to be suffering from acute respiratory problems and renal
failure after returning from Saudi Arabia.
The British health protection agency conducted tests that
confirmed the presence of a novel coronavirus, which earlier this
year killed a 60-year-old Saudi national.
"The new coronavirus is different from the one that triggered SARS
but it can be as severe and as deadly," Zeng Guang, chief
epidemiologist at the CDC, told the daily.
An outbreak of SARS between November 2002 and July 2003 killed
some 900 people worldwide and infected more than 8,000 people, the
WHO said.
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