Note from the editors: novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

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Abstract

At the end of 2019, on 31 December, the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in China was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown aetiology that had been detected in Wuhan, a city in the province of Hubei. Just a day earlier, on 30 December, ProMED-mail published a post calling for more information about 'A cluster of undiagnosed pneumonia -China (Hubei)'. The post indicated that there had been some 20 patients diagnosed with 'atypical pneumonia' with seven of them being severely ill In their accompanying note, the post's moderator stated 'the type of social media activity that is now surrounding this event, is very reminiscent of the original "rumors" that accompanied the SARS-CoV outbreak.' [Ed. severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus outbreak in 2003].

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