There appears to be no reprieve since it was first detected in December in Hubei province’s Wuhan City.
In an NST interview , Hospital Sungai Buloh’s former head of Infectious Diseases Unit Datuk Dr Christopher Lee — slightly over a year before the discovery of the Wuhan virus — had predicted that the next outbreak of infectious disease “could be more dangerous, especially with increased transmission of pathogens from animals to humans”.
The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says clean hands can prevent the spread of germs, including those that are resistant to antibiotics and are becoming difficult, if not impossible, to treat.