Health Report - Obesity Rises Among Children in Developing Countries

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World Health Organization is expressing increasing concern about virus that is similar to the respiratory disease as SARS. The WHO calls the newly named Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV-. Most of MERS have been reported in the Middle , mainly in Saudi Arabia. But cases have also found in other countries, including Italy, Tunisia, Jordan, and FranceSince September the WHO has been informed more than 50 laboratory-confirmed cases of MERS. At 30 people with the infection have died. WHO Gregory Hartl says public health experts need to how humans get infected in order to be to control it. And, he says experts need develop ways to treat the diseaseMr.. Hartl says far all of the confirmed cases of the have had something in common. All the cases had a travel connection to the Arabian Peninsula. . Hartl says there have been very few cases infected people returned home and transmitted the virus other people. But two cases in France suggest close contact can cause the virus to spread person to person. A man sharing a hospital with a patient with MERS later developed the himself. A new study published online by the medical journal suggests that people with MERS should kept away from other people for twelve daysThe general of the WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, has the MERS virus as a "threat to the world." Symptoms of the disease include cough, fever difficulty breathing. For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn .

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