February 13, 2013 LONDON (AP) -- British officials say a
mysterious virus related to SARS may have spread between humans,
as they confirmed the 11th case worldwide of the new coronavirus
in a patient who they say probably caught it from a family
member. The new virus was first identified last year in the
Middle East and the 10 people who have previously been infected
had all traveled to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Pakistan.
According to Britain's Health Protection Agency, the latest
patient is a U.K. resident with no recent travel to any of those
countries but who had close personal contact with an earlier
case. The patient may also have been at greater risk of
infection due to an underlying medical condition and is
currently in intensive care at a Birmingham hospital. "Although
this case provides strong evidence for person to person
transmission, the risk of infection in most circumstances is
still considered to be very low," John Watson, head of the
respiratory diseases department at the Health Protectio