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On September 23rd,the United Kingdom Health Protection Agency (HPA) reported the diagnostic confirmation of a human infection case by a new type of coronavirus (http://www.hpa.org.uk/NewsCentre/NationalPressReleases/2012PressReleases/120923acuterespiratoryillnessidentified/).The patient is a 49-year-old Qatari who suffered from an acute,serious respiratory illness.The record shows that the man had been in a travel visit to the country of Saudi Arabia,where an Arabic victim of a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus was reported several months ago (http://www.promedmail.org/direct.php?id=20120920.1302733).Laboratory tests showed that the identified viruses from these two patients are genetically the same (http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb C/1317136202755).