How is this virus transmitted?

This is an outbreak of disease that started in Wuhan, one of the central Chinese cities. It’s caused by a novel corona virus that means it’s brand-new. 【小题1】.

The virus is from a family called the corona viruses. The symptoms of this illness are pretty mundane (平凡的) on the face of it: it’s a dry cough fever and then breathing problems. 【小题2】. However, as for the more severe cases, people have gone on to develop viral pneumonia, and all the deaths have been among those people.

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This brand-new corona virus came from animals, and it’s believed that the source was actually a seafood market in Wuhan, which also sells wild animals. So far all the cases have come out of Wuhan. But some people haven’t picked it up there.

As we can see, older people are ending up in hospital with the virus. They’re usually over 40.

【小题4】. Basically their immune systems are not very strong, and they’re gong to find it very hard to fight off a virus.

We’ve only just discovered that the new corona virus is actually transmitted from one person to another. It was hoped at first actually that it just came from animals as all corona viruses do. 【小题5】.So we’ve got people to people transmission, because the market has been closed for sometime, and there are cases in people who’ve never been near it.