I think that the this topic is something that everyone should know about since this disease has a possibility of spreading to different parts of the world if someone who has the disease leaves China and no one is aware that the person has it. Also, if people knew about this they could try to find a vaccine that could help fight against the coronavirus.

The coronavirus is a group of viruses that can cause a large range of symptoms such as a runny nose, cough, sore throat, and a fever. Although some are mild like the cold others can be more serious and lead to pneumonia. The coronavirus are usually spread through direct contact with an infected person.

People believe that the likeliest source of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is the cluster of vendors in a downtown market that has carcasses and dozens of wild animals such as bamboo rats, ostriches, baby crocodiles, and hedgehogs. The Huanan food market has over 1,000 stalls spread around the size of 9 football fields. Chinese public health officials warned that the virus is getting to be more and more contagious, Hong Kong’s government said it would deny entry to people who have visited Hubei during the past 2 weeks as an effort to stop the virus from spreading.

More than 2,700 people are infected and at least 80 people were killed. China may decided on a permanent ban on wild meat to prevent the coronavirus. Medical researchers have determined that the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS started in 2002 (it killed 800 people worldwide) and originated in bats and spread to humans from cat-sized mammals which are sold in Chinese food markets. The virus can easily switch to a different host that is not a bat mutating along the way.