{"id":13322,"date":"2020-01-28T23:17:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/27\/what-is-coronavirus-symptoms-sars-china-wuhan"},"modified":"2020-01-28T23:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:17:04","slug":"what-is-the-coronavirus-and-how-worried-should-we-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13322","title":{"rendered":"What is the coronavirus and how worried should we be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the symptoms, how is it transmitted from one person to another, and how is the virus from Wuhan in China related to Sars?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/27\/coronavirus-how-to-protect-yourself-from-infection\">Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/28\/germany-confirms-first-human-coronavirus-transmission-in-europe\">Germany confirms first human transmission in Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/live\/2020\/jan\/28\/coronavirus-first-death-in-beijing-as-us-issues-new-china-travel-warning-live-updates\">Coronavirus latest &#8211; live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is a novel coronavirus \u2013 that is to say, a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city, which also sold live and newly slaughtered animals. New and troubling viruses usually originate in animal hosts. Ebola and flu are examples.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/27\/what-is-coronavirus-symptoms-sars-china-wuhan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the symptoms, how is it transmitted from one person to another, and how is the virus from Wuhan in China related to Sars?Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infectionGermany confirms first human transmission in EuropeCoronavirus latest -&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,918,50,1069,512,916,1037,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-sars","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13323,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions\/13323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}