SARS 2/20/2020

This week I talked about the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak of 2003. SARS is caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV. Like Ebola and the novel coronavirus, SARS is zoonotic. SARS was first reported in Asia in Feb 2003. There were 8098 infections...

Ebola 2/13/2020

On the Feb 13th I gave am update about Coronavirus. I got most of my information from CNN so I will link that at the bottom. After that, I focused on the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Ebola has been around since the 1970s and often has outbreaks. The 2014 had a 64% mortality...

Coronavirus 2/6/2020

This week I talked about the current coronavirus outbreak. Since Thursday, the number of people infected is 34,000+ with almost 700 deaths so far. It has spread quickly because it began in a large, popular city and during Lunar New Years. The economy of China, which...