Until this month, most Filipinos had never heard of Wuhan, the central and most populous city in China’s Hubei province. But now, Wuhan is everywhere in the news, identified as the source of the newest medical scourge in the world, the novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV. The coronavirus, belonging to the same family as two other deadly viruses, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), has infected over 1,300 people and
The real threat posed by emergent infectious diseases like the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which first appeared last December in China’s Wuhan City and is now causing global concern, is not that it is deadlier than other known viruses or bacteria. It is rather that while the principal carriers of these diseases—human
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