The new coronavirus is "Much, much worse" than E bola.
Ebola
Peter piot said that unlike Ebola, which requires close contact with a victim, the new virus was "Very infectious".
Piot said the new coronavirus was more dangerous as the virus is literally something you can catch by just talking to somebody.
Its average fatality rate is 50%, although in some previous outbreaks it has been as high as 90%.
Spanish flu
Ebola requires very close contact for transmission. People are very scared of it but frankly, it is usually very contained. I mean, we have some exceptions.
But it's because it (new coronavirus) is a respiratory transmitted virus that makes it so worrisome. And it's very infectious because there's so much virus in the throat. So this is literally something you can catch by just talking to somebody."
Peter piot, currently the director of the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine, equated the coronavirus outbreak with the spanish flu.
Influenza
The influenza outbreak infected 500 million around the world in 1918 and killed an estimated 50 million people.
But he pointed out that at least this time around, the world was better equipped through antibiotics and specialist medical tools.
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