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Headline: Previously Known Strains Of Coronavirus

Caption: *NOTE* There are seven known strains of human coronaviruses – these are previously known examples. These picture do not show the Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV , China Virus). PICTURE SHOWS: This undated image was captured during an investigation into the first reported Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) case in Haramout, Yemen. The study was led by Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) residents. In this particular view, veterinarian, Hasan Alkaf, DVM, is shown extracting blood samples from a camel’s neck, as the animal was held in check by an assistant. The FETP trains workers on the ground to help countries build sustainable capacity for detecting and responding to health threats. The program develops in-country expertise, so that disease outbreaks can be detected locally, and prevented from spreading. STORY: Novel coronavirus, denoted 2019-nCoV by the WHO and also known as Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus and Wuhan pneumonia, is a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA coronavirus first reported in 2019. The virus was genomically sequenced after nucleic acid testing on a positive patient sample in a patient with pneumonia during the 2019–2020 Wuhan pneumonia outbreak. On 20 January 2020, human-to-human transmission was confirmed in Guangdong province, China, according to Zhong Nanshan, head of the health commission team investigating the outbreak.[7] No specific treatment for the new virus is currently available, but existing anti-virals could be repurposed. The virus has spread to Bangkok, Tokyo, South Korea, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong Province, Taiwan, and Washington State in the United States.

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