The Chinese city of Wuhan, the source of an outbreak of a new flu-like virus, is closing its transport networks and has advised to leave the city as the death toll rose steeply overnight. The Japanese government has no awareness of the epidemic. Did Japanese parliamentarians forget the movie of Trailer 1 (2016)
It is a novel – that is to say, a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the of the Chinese city, which also sold live and newly slaughtered animals. and troubling viruses usually originate in animal hosts. Ebola and flu are examples. Severe acute respiratory syndrome () and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (Mers) are both caused by that came from animals. Although is believed to be transmitted to humans from dromedaries, the original hosts for both were probably bats. There are suspicions now that the new may have originated in bats or snakes, and possibly then was transmitted to humans via an intermediary species. The first cases of were in China in late 2002. The authorities played them down and were subsequently much because the virus spread virtually unchecked to 37 countries, causing global panic, infecting more than 8,000 people and killing more than 750. appears to be less easily passed from human to human, but has greater , killing 35% of about 2,500 people who have been infected.
