SARS, Swine Flu, Zika Virus, Ebola and now the latest impending pandemic that may sweep the global experts have warned, the new “coronavirus strain – 2019-nCoV –“ Yahoo News reported.
While so far there have been at least 17 deaths due to the virus, equally a death rate of those infected at 2% Professor Neil Ferguson from Imperial College London has warned that the virus could prove as deadly as Spanish Flu.
The Spanish Flu, which did not actually originate in Spain, killed between 20 and 50 million people after infecting almost 500 million individuals, reaching its peak in 1918 at time when the global population was only around 1.6 billion people at the time, compared to 7.8 billion today.
Médecins Sans Frontières has warned that without treatment a person will inevitably die from the strain which causes asphyxiation.
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