It comes after the death toll from the virus passed 1,000. Tens of thousands of people have been infected.

Dr Ghebreyesus called on the world to fight the new virus as aggressively as possible.

The word coronavirus refers to the group of viruses it belongs to, rather than the latest strain.

The virus itself has been designated SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.

Researchers have been calling for an official name to avoid confusion and stigmatisation of any group or country.

In a bizarre coincidence, a 1981 fictional novel The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz predicts a Coronavirus like outbreak and its origin.

The number of patients infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus aboard a quarantined cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan has continued to rise—making the ship the largest cluster of the deadly virus outside China.

An additional 44 cases of the illness were identified on the Diamond Princess on Thursday, bringing the total number of infections to 218. That accounts for more than one third of all cases detected outside mainland China.

"It’s highly possible to get infected a second time. A few people recovered from the first time by their own immune system, but the meds they use are damaging their heart tissue, and when they get it the second time, the antibody doesn’t help but makes it worse, and they die a sudden death from heart failure," reads a message forwarded to Taiwan News from a relative of one of the doctors living in the United Kingdom.

The source also said the virus has “outsmarted all of us,” as it can hide symptoms for up to 24 days. This assertion has been made independently elsewhere, with Chinese pulmonologist Zhong Nanshan (鍾南山) saying the average incubation period is three days, but it can take as little as one day and up to 24 days to develop symptoms.


Also, the source said that false negative tests for the virus are fairly common. “It can fool the test kit – there were cases that they found, the CT scan shows both lungs are fully infected but the test came back negative four times. The fifth test came back positive.” -Taiwan Times

Notably, one of the ways coronaviruses cripple the immune system is via an HIV-like attachment to white blood cells, which triggers a 'cytokine storm' - a term popularized during the avian H5N1 influenza outbreak - in which an uncontrolled release of inflammatory 'cytokines' target various organs, often leading to failure and in many cases death.

Senator Cotton: China Refusing To Hand Over Evidence About Wuhan BioLab


Update (1010ET): It turns out the Wuhan P4 lab that ZeroHedge questioned as the source of the virus released an internal statement on January 2nd - two weeks before the first officially-reported case - forbidding all staff from mentioning the coronavirus...

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Wuhan Virus Origin

It seems the new coronavirus – 2019-nCoV – has emerged from several different animal species, including a trip through an HIV infected homo sapiens. Various scientific articles state that “it shares 96 percent of its RNA with a coronavirus previously identified in a specific bat species in China”, and that “the protein codes in the 2019-nCoV are most similar to those used in snakes” and the “genome sequences of viruses found on the scaly mammal [pangolin] are 99 percent identical” to 2019-nCoV. The Zetas stated from the start that the Wuhan virus was not weaponized
http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue697.htm
nor genetically engineered, but was a natural emergence.

How Coronaviruses Cause Infection—from Colds to Deadly Pneumonia
February 5, 2020
http://scientificamerican.com/article/h ... se-infec...
SARS, MERS and the new coronavirus almost certainly all originated in bats. The most recent analysis of the 2019-nCoV genome found it shares 96 percent of its RNA with a coronavirus previously identified in a specific bat species in China.

Snakes Could Be the Original Source of the New Coronavirus Outbreak in China
January 22, 2020
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... the-orig...
The researchers used an analysis of the protein codes favored by the new coronavirus and compared it to the protein codes from coronaviruses found in different animal hosts, like birds, snakes, marmots, hedgehogs, manis, bats and humans. Surprisingly, they found that the protein codes in the 2019-nCoV are most similar to those used in snakes.

China Virus Crisis Deepens as Whistleblower Doctor Dies
February 6, 2020
https://news.yahoo.com/global-fears-ris ... ases-fou...
Researchers at the South China Agricultural University have identified the endangered pangolin as a "potential intermediate host" for the disease, as the genome sequences of viruses found on the scaly mammal are 99 percent identical to those on coronavirus patients.

ZetaTalk Analysis 2/28/2020:
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/28fe2020.htm
We stated when the Wuhan coronavirus 2019-nCoV first emerged that this was not a weaponized or genetically engineered virus, but naturally emerging. There is no way to definitely prove or disprove either premise, because nature mutates and mixes virus material faster and more adroitly than man. Reports emerge that it seems the Wuhan virus took a trip through a snake,
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... the-orig...
or shares 99% of the virus found on the mammalian pangolin
https://news.yahoo.com/corona-virus-spr ... h-illega...
but that 96% of its RNA is shared with China’s bat population.
http://scientificamerican.com/article/h ... se-infec...

A trip to the wet markets of Wuhan, where the guts and blood of various species are spilled on the floor to flow into the drainage system and thence back into the wildlife pool, shows how a virus mix and mutation could occur. The normal barriers that nature provides are broken down. A snake may eat a bat, and a pangolin may inadvertently eat the droppings of both, but the floor and drain of a wet market is introducing the virus populations of many species at a rate that nature could never match.

What about the presence of HIV-1 genetic code in the Wuhan virus? This was also present in SARS, but is more prevalent in 2019-nCoV. Because of these HIV-1 inserts in the Wuhan virus, immunologists seeking a vaccine or medicine effective against the Wuhan virus have discovered that HIV anti-viral meds are helpful! Are there HIV infected individuals in China? Of course there are, as in every country, and humans carrying the virus could indeed work or shop in the wet markets of central China.


The Evolution of HIV-1 and the Origin of AIDS
August 27, 2010
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2935100/
The source of HIV-1 group M, the main form of AIDS virus infecting humans, has been traced to a virus infecting the central subspecies of chimpanzees.

Uncanny Similarity of Unique Inserts in the 2019-nCoV Spike Protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag
January 30, 2020
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 1.full.pdf
We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.

ZetaTalk Analysis 2/28/2020:
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/28fe2020.htm
What does it mean, when multiple HIV-1 inserts
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 1.full.pdf
are discovered in the 2019-nCoV? This is asserted as proof of genetic engineering, because the HIV-1 comes from a chimp,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2935100/
not found in China. Where would this sequence come from? Man, of course, an HIV infected human, as HIV is now resident in every human culture around the world. In the wet markets of Wuhan, a virus could move from live produce to a vendor and thence to yet another species of live produce, mutating and adapting freely.

Conspiracy theories abound, because Wuhan is the site of a Chinese bio lab. One theory has the Chinese trying to develop a super bug that would kill off broad swaths of mankind, and this super bug escaped the labs. Another theory is that the Chinese were trying to develop a super vaccine, experimenting with this on its own people, and the experiment backfired. These theories have no substantiation, but are unlikely to go away. But what is evident from the death rate is that, like SARS, the virus originating among the Chinese has found a vulnerable entry. It attacks via the ACE receptors in the lungs. Thus the high death rate among the Chinese who have up to 5 times the number of such receptors as do other races of man.


How Coronaviruses Cause Infection—from Colds to Deadly Pneumonia
February 5, 2020
http://scientificamerican.com/article/h ... se-infec...
The SARS virus binds to a receptor called ACE2, found in lung cells. Analysis of 2019-nCoV strongly suggests the new virus, like SARS, uses ACE2 to gain entry to cells.

Single-Call RNA Expression Profiling of ACE2, the Putative Receptor of Wuhan 2019-nCoV
January 26, 2020
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 985v1.full
A comparison between eight individual samples demonstrated that the Asian male has an extremely large number of ACE2-expressing cells in the lung. Severe infection by 2019-nCov could result in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and sepsis, causing death in approximately 15% of infected individuals. The Asian donor (male) has a much higher ACE2-expressing cell ratio than white and African American donors (2.50% vs. 0.47% of all cells). This might explain the observation that the new Coronavirus pandemic and previous SARS-Cov pandemic are concentrated in the Asian area.