What Happens to Your Body When You Get the New Coronavirus?
Over 1,000 people have died and 45,000 have fallen ill with the new coronavirus, which emerged in a Chinese city late last year. So, what exactly happens to your body when you catch the little-understood bug—which has been named COVID-19?
As the disease only came to the attention of health authorities late last year when it started sickening workers at a wholesale seafood market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province, experts are constantly learning about its characteristics.
According to the World Health Organization, which has declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern, it is like any other respiratory illness and can cause mild symptoms such as a runny rose, sore throat, cough and a fever. But in serious cases, it can cause pneumonia, as well as breathing problems. "More rarely, the disease can be fatal," the UN health agency said.
In a paper published in the journal JAMA last week, a group of researchers shed light on how the new member of the coronavirus family of pathogens affects people, assessing the condition of 138 patients who developed pneumonia after catching COVID-19. The individuals were treated at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, in the city at the epicenter of the outbreak. While the virus has spread to over 25 countries and territories, as shown in the infographic by Statista below, all but two of the deaths have occurred inside mainland China—largely in Hubei.
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