Egyptian virologist who identified the new coronavirus, believes that the epidemic "happen." The virus "will gradually become more easily transmitted."
The Egyptian doctor who first identified the new coronavirus (NCoV) having infected at least 32 people in the Middle East and Europe, including two in France, a judge probable epidemic. Ali Mohamed Zaki think, however, that if this is the case, it will not remain coronavirus as virulent present. "Given the developments, it seems that it will gradually become more transmissible," said the Egyptian Virologist questioned Monday over the phone.
However, it seemed that the relatively early discovery of this coronavirus allows the international community to be better prepared than during the SARS epidemic, which caused 775 deaths in 2003 after being spread throughout the world. In both cases, there is respiratory disease whose main symptoms are fever and cough.
"Here, we have identified the virus before the outbreak occurs, and I think it will happen, and we have the tools to diagnose," said Ali Mohamed Zaki, who identified the virus in June 2012 in he treated a patient in a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.The new coronavirus has killed at least 18 people, more than half of those infected.Ali Mohamed Zaki, who now has the Ain Shams University in Cairo, believes, however, that mortality rates drop to measure the spread of the coronavirus.
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers it likely that transmission from human to human coronavirus but only after close and prolonged contact. In France, a man who shared the hospital room of a contaminated Valenciennes patient was also infected with the coronavirus .
