This is an outbreak of disease that started in central Chinese cities . it's caused by a novel corona virus that means it's brand new same use it actually doesn't have a name yet.
It's from a family called the corona viruses the symptoms of this illness are pretty mundane on the face of it it's a dry cough.
We only know about the most severe cases.
This brand new corona virus came from animals and it's believed that the source was actually a seafood markets in Wuhan which also sells wild animals.
So far as far as we know who all the cases.
Have come out of hand so some of these people are in places like Thailand and Japan
Where the most cases all Its older people who are ending up in hospital with this they usually over forty and the very youngest person diagnosed as about thirteen or fourteen years old So it doesn't appear to be affecting small children. Basically their immune system are not very robust. And they can find it very hard to fight off the 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
But now it looks as though it is actually post from one human being to another site we called people to people transmission .
So the think Isn't any treatment at the moment the told because this is a virus and about six when work that they only work against bacteria not viruses so who really wants not antiviral treatment.
But none of the flu drugs that we've got we have got a couple of those will work on this a corona virus is different from the flu virus.
This one is scary because it is a brand new virus so we don't know how it's going to behave.
West Africa outbreak of Ebola and that was killing more than half of those people who are infected.
Cells which was A novel corona virus just like this .Its did end up causing a global panic and that was largely because nobody's ever seen it before but also the death rate was around ten percent well here's say fall we're talking about a death rate of two percent which is a lot less and it does look as if many of those people I actually have had underlying health problems which would make it more likely that they would die they could equally have died of flu .
Prevention
Cleaning your hands regularly with alcohol rub or soap and water is the single most effective way of stopping the spread of lots of infections .
when you cough ir sneeze cover your nose and mount with a tissue , bin the tissue or if you no tissue cough or sneeze into your hands .clean your hands after coughing or sneezing.
Avoid close contact with anyone with corona virus ,cold or flu symptoms