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A new and potentially fatal virus, allegedly originating in Saudi, appears not to spread easily from person to person, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. This virus has already killed one man, and put another into critical condition, both patients who have so far been confirmed with the new virus suffered kidney failure. Found about a week ago or so, the studies surrounding it are short of conclusive. After putting out a Global Alert on the severity of the virus, finding that it cannot be transmitted easily is a sigh of relief for us all. Since those 2 cases have been released, there has been no confirmation of any other cases like it.
It is not however, being discounted as dangerous, given the cost of hosting this virus, the WHO is still monitoring the situation. Scientists at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), said initial virology results and the separation in time of the only two confirmed cases suggest the infection may have developed from animals. Such diseases are known as zoonoses. "(It) is quite probably of zoonotic origin and different in behaviour from SARS," the scientists from Eurosurveillance said.
I find this quote disturbing though:
"But from the evidence we have, and given that there are only two cases confirmed so far and there was a distance and time distance between the two cases, (the) assumption is that it isn't easily transferable person to person," he told reporters.
The above content is seemingly based on assumption, not to say that it is right or wrong, but it seems that the statements released regarding the communicability of this virus are not fact based or test based. The health and well-being of the world seems like a rather large pot to gamble on, but next week they said they will be able to release much more conclusive judgments and be able to make much more well informed decisions. 
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