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Novel Coronavirus made its appearance in 2012, a new strain of the Coronavirus which causes a number of infections to humans and animals, the most common of which is the common cold but also more pathogenic diseases such as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). After a period of alarm, the chatter has gone quiet...before the storm?

WHO Report: Background and summary of Novel Coronavirus infection - as of December 2012. A comment: From SARS to SARI.

In this column I have, on numerous occasions, criticized the World Health Organization and the international response to Swine Flu, or Influenza A H1N1, which swept the world in 2009; the response was basically to sit back and watch as the flu virus spread, informing the world as to how quickly it was passing from Phase 1 to Phase 6 and then looking on as vaccines were hastily put together and administered. Meanwhile some grew rich with the sale of millions of doses of drugs.

So pardon the alarm when the Novel Coronavirus appeared in 2012 and pardon my skepticism when the World Health Organization states that there have been nine reported cases of Novel Coronavirus infection, occasioning SARI (Severe Acute Respiratory Infection, kidney failure, pericarditis and disseminated intravascular coagulation, depending on the case.

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