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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: Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this highly magnified, digitally colorized transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image, reveals ultrastructural details exhibited by a number of red-colored, spherical shaped, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) virions. 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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