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We're getting nervous: This new SARS-like virus seems to be spreading

2/12/2013

If Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that the end of humankind will not happen via a crazy terrorist plot or aliens. It's more likely a virus (or zombies) will kill us all. So go ahead and panic at the latest "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!" virus mysteriously sweeping the globe and infecting people, and then wonder if we will all die horrible deaths like Gwyneth Paltrow in "Contagion." News comes from the U.K. that a British man is the 10th known case of a new strain of a SARS-like coronavirus that has already killed five people. The new Bringer of the Apocalypse shares some of the same symptoms as SARS: severe respiratory illness, fever, coughing and breathing difficulties. Is it us, or is it warm in here? [Source]

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