Avoid being in contact with animals or items made from animals. It was found that the first group of people was infected by the virus passed from animals to humans at the meat and seafood market in Wuhan city.
If you just came back from the infected areas and start having a fever, sore throat, coughing, and breathing difficulty, please proceed to the doctor and inform about your travel history.
There were the outbreaks of the same virus twice before. According to the data from the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, in 2002-2003 the Coronavirus or SARS was passed from bats to civets and to humans. It started in China before spreading all over the world. There were more than 8,000 infected people and death toll came down to 10%. And one more from 2012-2014 the Coronavirus “MERS” started from Saudi Arabia. It was passed from bats thru camels and to humans which caused the death toll up to 36% and infected people in total of 1,733.
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Source: World Health Organization and Department of Disease Control