7 Duke Experts Answer the Most Pressing Coronavirus Questions This Week
Just six weeks ago, almost no one was talking about coronavirus. But by the third week of January, stories about a worrisome illness spreading in China had taken over news cycles across the world. At first, all anyone knew was that it was contagious, causing serious respiratory illness in some and potentially deadly.
Wuhan Coronavirus: scientists in Singapore culture virus from patient
This could be a game-changer in the fight against a deadly epidemic that has affected thousands
Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS), in close collaboration with clinicians and scientists from SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and Ministry of Health (MOH), have successfully cultured the coronavirus from an infected patient’s clinical sample.
What is Coronavirus?
Duke experts offer a quick explainer and what we know about the new coronavirus in China
As worries escalate over a new coronavirus that recently emerged in China, questions are popping up about the illness it causes, which has sickened more than 6,000 people and has led to at least 132 deaths.*
The novel infection’s “ground zero” is the city of Wuhan, in Central China, but cases have been reported in other countries, including Japan, Thailand, Korea, and the U.S.