Europe's New Deadly Disease

     In a recent news article entitled, New SARS-like Virus, Kate Kelland informs the viewers of Yahoo! News of a deadly new disease that has taken over Europe. According to the World Health Organization, the virus was identified in Septemeber of 2012. WHO explains that SARS, "or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, symptoms... include respirtatory illness, fever, and coughing." The virus is currently showing person-to-person transmission. Viruses such as SARS usually travel in airborne droplets, causing this case to be very interesting. Tom Wilkinson, a lecturer in respiratory medicine at Britain's University of Southampton, has stated  said that "if [the virus] turns out to be like the previous SARS outbreak, it may prove quite slow to spread..." Doctors are working day and night in order to treat those infected. They are also trying to come up with a vaccine in order to prevent more infections. This article caught my eye because of the fact that some people have actually died from the virus. Many viruses already have vaccines to prevent them, but this one is mutated and transmits through human contact. It reminded me of the Black Plague, a disease that killed a huge population of Europe and Asia back in the Middle Ages.