Coronavirus fears for tourists as Thailand admits it can't stop the spread of killer bug
THAILAND'S health minister has warned the nation cannot stop the spread of coronavirus, as it becomes the worst-affected nation outside of China.case on January 12, before Japan followed suit on January 16.
While all arrivals into Thailand from China will now be screened and thermal scanned for signs of the disease, theThere are fears that while visitors may not have any symptoms, they could in theory be spreading the infection.
An outbreak of the virus is understood to have started at an open air fish market in the Chinese city ofA new study published in the China Science Bulletin this week claimed that the newPrevious deadly outbreaks of SARS and Ebola were also believed to have originated in the flying mammal. Meanwhile, scientists at Peking University also claim that the deadly virus was passed to humans from bats - but say it was through a mutation in snakes.
After analysing the genes of the strains the team found that snakes were susceptible to the most similar version of the coronavirus.
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