December 11, 2007

Deadly virus kills ten

There is a new infectious virus doing the rounds in the States, it starts off with all of the symptoms that you find in a cold, but it doesn’t stop there for within a coupe days the patients are struggling to breath and need emergency care.

So far over a thousand people have been affected by this, with many being hospitalised needing intensive care treatment and ten people have died.

The problem with this illness is the fact that the patients eventually suffer from breathing difficulties, if treatment is not sort immediately then the patients life could be at risk. What makes this so serious is that it spread in a similar way as a cold. This is being taken very seriously with Dean Erdman from the CDC headquarters is looking into the spread of this virus and how to treat it.

Source [MSNBC]