Coronavirus: How are patients treated?
The virus, so far called 2019-nCoV, is known to have killed 170 people in China and infected more than 7,000. It has also spread to 16 other countries.
It's a newly identified member of the coronavirus family - common infections which cause cold-like symptoms, a fever, coughing and respiratory problems.
Many people who get this new virus will only suffer mild symptoms, and most are expected to make a full recovery.
But like Sars (also a coronavirus) and influenza, this new one appears to pose a particular risk for elderly people and those with pre-existing illnesses.
There is no cure, in the same way that there is no cure for the common cold.
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