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A deadly new virus goes global

LUNAR NEW YEAR IS A TIME FOR TRAVEL across China, as people make up to 450 million trips abroad for vacation or back to their hometowns for meals with family. But a deadly virus is also on the move, putting a damper on the celebrations, which fall around Jan. 25 this year.

The outbreak of a viral pneumonia-like illness was first reported in December in Wuhan, a major city in central China. Health officials quickly identified the pathogen as a coronavirus related to the virus that caused the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, which began in southern China in 2002, killing

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