Step Aside, SARS, There's A New Virus In Town

“Two people from the Arabian peninsula picked up a virus no one has ever seen before; one is now very ill, the other has died. The virus belongs to the same family as SARS, another virus no one had seen before when it emerged from China in 2002. SARS circled the globe and killed almost 800 people, and those are just the ones we know of. Were it not for a landmark global effort in disease control — and a fair amount of luck — it would probably still be out there. Is the still-nameless Middle Eastern virus the next SARS?”
 — The article says “not yet,” but I say, sure, why the hell not. Everybody panic!