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The headline reads - new virus is threat to the world - this is serious. The disease has affected people in the Middle East but one person died from it in France. Yesterday we were reading about a strain of bird flu in China that does not respond to antibiotics.

CNN: Newly discovered virus takes more lives, spreads

...Middle East respiratory symptom coronavirus, or MERS-CoV.

It acts like a cold virus and attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said. But symptoms, which include fever and a cough, are severe and can lead to pneumonia and kidney failure.