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New Tech, Sharp Docs Made Fast ID of Wuhan Coronavirus Possible

Steve Baragona

   The new virus emerging from a live animal market in southern China has
   worrisome echoes of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which
   killed 774 people worldwide in 2002 and 2003.

   Two people have died from the new virus, which is closely related to
   the SARS virus. Forty-one people have become ill. Three travelers have
   carried it to Thailand and Japan.

   Georgetown University infectious diseases physician Daniel Lucey worked
   on SARS in 2003 in China, Hong Kong and Toronto.

   He says this outbreak is different in three ways.

   Chinese scientists have tools that were not available in 2002. They had
   the acumen to look for something new. And they had something else that
   was missing during SARS: the transparency to warn the world.

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