Oh happy day. A new deadly illness has been discovered in the UK.<\/p>\n
An acute respiratory illness associated with a new virus has materialised, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA) today.<\/p>\n
A new human coronavirus was identified in a patient – who died – in Saudi Arabia recently.<\/p>\n
Now another patient newly arrived in the UK is being treated in a London hospital.<\/p>\n
Laboratory tests confirm it the same\u00a0acute respiratory illness, making two cases world wide.<\/p>\n
Coronaviruses cause the common cold, but also severe viruses such as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory).<\/p>\n
This new virus is different to any other viruses seen in humans before.<\/p>\n
Head of the respiratory diseases department at the HPA, Professor John Watson\u00a0warned a need for ‘increased vigilance’ for the virus.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe HPA is providing advice to healthcare workers to ensure the patient under \u00a0investigation is being treated appropriately.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the light of the severity of the illness that has been identified in the two confirmed \u00a0cases, immediate steps have been taken to ensure that people who have been in contact with the UK case have not been infected, and there is no evidence to suggest they have.”<\/p>\n
If you would like more information to panic over, visit: http:\/\/www.hpa.org.uk\/webw\/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard\/HPAweb_C\/1317136202755<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh happy day. A new deadly illness has been discovered in the UK. An acute respiratory illness associated with a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-news"],"yoast_head":"\n