Scientists are trying to unravel a medical mystery involving a
new type of coronavirus, which come from that same large family
of viruses that bring us the common cold but also brought us
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - better known as SARS - back
in 2002. So far, two patients have been identified as having
been infected with this new virus: A 49-year-old male from Qatar
who was transferred to the United Kingdom for treatment
September 11 and is currently in critical condition, and a
60-year-old Saudi Arabian man who was treated in June and has
since died. While the Qatari man is known to have traveled to
Saudi Arabia, officials at the World Health Organization do not
believe there's a connection between the two. However, it has
been determined that they both had the same symptoms, severe
respiratory illness-like pneumonia and kidney failure. When
samples from both patients were tested, researchers found they
both were infected with the same virus. This new virus was first
identified and reported by Dr. A