{"id":17560,"date":"2020-02-06T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T06:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creately.com\/blog\/?page_id=17560"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:34:41","slug":"china-coronavirus-compared","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creately.com\/blog\/china-coronavirus-compared\/","title":{"rendered":"The China Coronavirus: Compared to Other Major Viruses over the Last 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By now, China coronavirus has closed down a city 11 million people, spread to&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewuhanvirus.com\/\">27 countries\/ regions<\/a>, and infected more than 17, 000 people (surpassing SARS).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It started with something simple &#8211; someone buying food for dinner at an outdoor market. And by now it has been declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like SARS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\">2019-nCoV<\/a> is a zoonotic disease that passes from animals to humans. Research indicates that both SARS and the novel coronavirus likely originated in bats and jumped to humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the last 50 years, 10 such infectious diseases have jumped from animals to people and so far the coronavirus has the lowest fatality rate. Here\u2019s a comparison between the novel coronavirus and the other major outbreaks over the last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.sg\/how-wuhan-coronavirus-compares-to-other-outbreaks-pandemics-2020-1\/\">50 years<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, China coronavirus has closed down a city 11 million people, spread to&nbsp; 27 countries\/ regions, and infected more than 17, 000 people (surpassing SARS).&nbsp; It started with something simple &#8211; someone buying food for dinner at an outdoor&#8230;<span class=\"continue-reading\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/creately.com\/blog\/china-coronavirus-compared\/\">Read 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