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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Scientists fear up to 4,500 Chinese patients may have caught new coronavirus; Wuhan health chiefs confirm 4 more cases
2020-01-18
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Health officials confirmed four new cases today, taking the total to 48

  • Imperial College London researchers say the true toll is likely to be much higher

  • They estimated there have been 1,700 cases of the coronavirus, and up to 4,000

  • This was based on the fact three cases have been recorded outside of China

  • The new coronavirus, which is yet to be named, causes cold-like symptoms including a runny nose, headache, cough, sore throat and a fever

Good news:
GERMAN RESEARCHERS DEVELOP FIRST TEST FOR NEW VIRUS IN CHINA
Scientists scrambling to contain the outbreak of the mystery virus have developed the first diagnostic test for doctors.

Virologists in Germany claim the test will allow laboratories to diagnose the 'novel' coronavirus in a 'very short period of time'.

World Health Organization chiefs will share details of the test with countries around the world, amid fears cases may crop up in other nations.

Laboratories can order a molecule from the team AT Berlin's Charite hospital to compare patient samples with that of an infected adult.

Following its online publication by the WHO, the test protocol will now serve as a guideline for laboratories.

Dr Christian Drosten, a virologist at the institute, said: 'We have just started receiving orders and are now starting to post the molecule.'

So far, doctors have only been able to perform a general virus test and then had to sequence and interpret the genome, which takes time.
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