Last December, the Chinese health authorities confirmed the first cases of pneumonia caused by a type of coronavirus similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). From then on, more and more people compared the now known as Wuhan coronavirus with SARS that killed 774 people in 2003.
And it is that, despite their differences, coronavirus is 80% similar to SARS virus, as explained by the National Genomic Data Center of China (NGDC). Since then, the disease that began to spread in the Chinese city of Wuhan has been spreading to different corners of the planet. From South Korea or Italy to France, Spain or the United States.
From SARS to Wuhan coronavirus
On January 29, Chinese authorities confirmed 5,974 cases of people infected with the Wuhan coronavirus. In this way, the coronavirus exceeded the number of affected registered during the epidemic of acute and severe respiratory syndrome. Not so in the case of the dead, a fact that would not occur until February 9, when 814 deaths were confirmed.
Since then, the virus has spread to affect about 80,000 people and kill more than 2,600, as shown the map created by the Center for Science and Systems Engineering (CSSE) from Johns Hopkins University (United States). A virus that not only kills in China, since it has begun to end the lives of people residing in other countries such as Japan, the Philippines, Iran or Italy, where four deaths have been confirmed to date.
The Wuhan coronavirus against the rest of the epidemics
Just a few days ago, the YouTube channel Abacaba shared a video through which it showed the advance of the coronavirus and that of other diseases such as Ebola or swine flu, among others. From the day the first cases were registered to the end. All this through a simple graph from which we can see the rate of both contagion and mortality of the different diseases.
In this way, those responsible for this channel show us that no epidemic was as deadly as the Spanish flu, that left more than 50 million dead throughout the planet. Next, the video shows us others such as swine flu, which killed nearly 300,000 people and the coronavirus, which, so far, has killed more than 2,600.
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