A BRAVE surgeon who treated coronavirus patients has become the 41st victim of the outbreak - with 56 million people now on lockdown. Dr Liang Wudong, 62, passed away today after becoming struck down with the deadly virus on January 16.
Meanwhile, the virus rages on:
Professor Neil Ferguson, an expert at Imperial College London, said the new strain is currently "as deadly as the Spanish flu epidemic". The 1918 outbreak is the most severe pandemic in recent history, wiping out an estimated 50 million people across the world.
They're dropping like flies, over there.
The killer coronavirus was spread from bats to snakes to humans, experts have claimed.
An outbreak of the virus is understood to have started at an open air fish market in the Chinese city of Wuhan - which has since been put in lockdown after 25 people died and more than 600 people were infected globally.
At last count, the number of infected individuals had more than doubled in the intervening time, to 1300.
Snakes are sold at the Huanan Seafood Market in central Wuhan and may have jumped to other animals before passing to humans, they claim.
Do they not offer the pneumonia vaccine over there? On the other hand, 56 million doses would likely be hard to come up with, particularly with little notice.
It's interesting that so many deadly outbreaks of disease seem to have their origins in China.
