So for the moment this novel coronavirus remains a dangerous but thankfully very rare infection.
The SARS coronavirus appears to be different from all other known coronaviruses, including animal ones.
Malek al Moosa, the hospital's executive director, confirmed that many of the coronavirus patients were treated here.
WSJ: Virus's Toll in Saudi Arabia Raises Fears of Faster Spread
In animals, as we've seen in SARS, some coronavirus patients die while others make a full recovery.
Yesterday, NEJM published results that a particular coronavirus is in all likelihood the culprit behind the illness.
The WHO said that, unlike Sars, the new coronavirus, "does not appear to transmit easily between people".
Although the novel coronavirus is from the same large family of pathogens as SARS, it is very different.
The emergence of the novel coronavirus is a reminder of the potential threat we face from emerging diseases.
However, the novel coronavirus had not been discovered at the time so did not appear in routine tests.
But the coronavirus so far appears deadlier, with 30 cases including 18 deaths.
WSJ: Virus's Toll in Saudi Arabia Raises Fears of Faster Spread
The new coronavirus was first identified in September 2012 in a patient in Saudi Arabia who has since died.
The SARS virus is most probably a coronavirus, the type of virus responsible for up to 30% of common colds.
The new coronavirus was detected after a 60-year-old man died of pneumonia and kidney failure in Saudi Arabia in June.
The World Health Organization says it appears likely that the novel coronavirus (NCoV) can be passed between people in close contact.
Novel coronavirus acts like a cold virus and attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said.
The novel coronavirus acts like a cold in attacking the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said.
Mr. Hartl said the Saudi government is reporting laboratory-confirmed cases of the coronavirus to the WHO, in compliance with international health regulations.
WSJ: Virus's Toll in Saudi Arabia Raises Fears of Faster Spread
The flu has hit more people 128 are known to have been infected as of May 2, including 26 who died than the coronavirus.
WSJ: Virus's Toll in Saudi Arabia Raises Fears of Faster Spread
The virus has spread quickly: 13 people fell ill with what was later confirmed as coronavirus from April 14 to May 1.
WSJ: Virus's Toll in Saudi Arabia Raises Fears of Faster Spread
The suspect behind SARS, a coronavirus, is smaller than that but comes encased in water droplets that get caught outside the mask.
Also in its Thursday update, the WHO appeared to have given the novel coronavirus a name: Middle East respiratory symptom coronavirus, or MERS-CoV.
Experiments carried out at Erasmus University in the Netherlands have shown that a coronavirus taken from SARS patients produces SARS-like symptoms in monkeys.
Doctors insist the risk of the new coronavirus spreading to the general UK population is "extremely low" and the situation is being closely monitored.
World Health Organization (WHO) officials have expressed concern over the clusters of cases of the new coronavirus strain and the potential for it to spread.
Three of the patients diagnosed as having the novel coronavirus, or nCoV, are still being treated, a statement on the Saudi Health Ministry website said.
Bats may be the source of a new Sars-like virus which killed a man in Saudi Arabia, according to an analysis of the coronavirus' genome.
NCoV, like some common colds, is also caused by a coronavirus.
CNN: Dangerous virus newly found in humans diagnosed in France
NCoV, like the common cold, is also caused by a coronavirus.
CNN: Dangerous virus newly found in humans diagnosed in France
It could also, however, be a mutation of another human coronavirus.
In 2002 an outbreak of the Sars coronavirus killed about 800 people after it spread from Hong Kong to more than 30 countries around the world.
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