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Thursday, September 27, 2012 7:14 AM PDT

WHO urges docs to watch for new SARS-like virus Associated Press via Yahoo! News Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:17 AM PDT Global health officials have alerted doctors to be on the lookout for a virus related to SARS but said there were no signs the disease was behaving like the respiratory syndrome that killed hundreds in 2003. Factbox: New virus can cause fever, cough, breathing problems Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:40 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a global alert about the emergence of a new virus that was previously unknown in humans and can cause a potentially fatal acute respiratory infection. Here is an at-a-glance guide to the virus: The virus belongs to a family called coronaviruses and has so far been confirmed in only two cases globally. Both occurred between July ...

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