Wednesday, June 19, 2013

New Coronavirus 'Eerily' Like SARS #Coronavirus #MERS

By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Published: June 19, 2013
 
The novel coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East is eerily similar to SARS, according to an expert who was part of a team studying a cluster of cases in hospitals in Saudi Arabia.

"This feels like SARS, it really does," said Trish Perl, MD, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
"The illness pattern, the incubation period -- there are a lot of eerie similarities," Perl told MedPage Today.

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Continued:  http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/GeneralInfectiousDisease/39972
 

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