Disease from China Goes Viral

Fitting for health scares, searing images depict people wearing masks. Not sure when the fast-spreading coronavirus will strike, those threatened know infection could be deadly. Mainland China held the dubious distinction of originating the disease, but its proportion of more than 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 60,000 deaths dwindled by early April 2020 as infections spread around the world.  The Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases — or PSMID — would not advise people to wash their hands of the whole thing, but that would be a healthy start. “Another emerging virus made it to the headlines,” said…...