In Britain, the patient died from SARS

Patient with atypical pneumonia caused by a new virus, died in Britain. He was treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and died on Sunday morning.

/ Reuters

He was treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and died on Sunday morning.

Of the 12 people who are infected with the virus worldwide, died six.

The virus-like already known coronavirus SARS, previously believed to be less dangerous, as there were no confirmed cases of transmission between people.

Recently, however, there is evidence that such a transfer is possible. Three members of one family were infected with the virus in Britain. From Qatar to Britain also came a patient contracted the virus from a family member.

There is also evidence that the family of the deceased on Sunday patient transmission occurred from his father, who traveled to the Middle East and in Pakistan, his son and another family member.

Deceased son had a weakened immune system and were more vulnerable to infections.

The exact source of the new coronavirus that causes SARS and sometimes kidney failure is unknown. Some scientists consider it a mutated version of the virus prevalent among bats.

The threat of the virus to humans is not very big, as he struggled to overcome interspecific immune barrier.

Professor Iain Jones of the University of Reading believes that, given the state of the deceased patient's premature to assume that there was a mutated form of the virus dangerous to humans.

"The risk of a new outbreak is still very low," - he said.

Source: Russian service Bi-bi-si