EMERGING VIRAL INFECTION-Wuhan pneumonia outbreak AND NEW CHALLENGES general, there is no way to predict when or where the next important new viral pathogen will emerge; as happened with SARS in Early 2000 and current occurrences of a new coronavirus has been identified in Wuhan's unexplained pneumonia outbreak, the virus isolated from one patient was examined microscopically and found to be a coronavirus, and the initial analysis from sequencing suggests that it is a new coronavirus. WHO said that early information from China last week on the Wuhan pneumonia cases—including occupation, location, and symptoms—pointed to coronavirus as the outbreak's possible cause.
The virus seems to group with beta coronaviruses, the genus that includes the SARS virus and MERS-CoV. Based on the sequence, the Wuhan coronavirus is a beta coronavirus of group 2B with at least 70 percent similarity with…
