(Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) Getty ImagesThe World Health Organization decided on Thursday not to declare the current Wuhan coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency. “We are completely committed to ending this new coronavirus outbreak as soon as possible. MERS (also called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), first identified in 2012, is another recent and ongoing coronavirus outbreak, with cases reported as recently as this week. The Wuhan coronavirus is different from these diseases, however, and it has never been seen in people before. The biggest risk for infection is people living in or traveling around Wuhan, China.

Source: Forbes January 23, 2020 18:58 UTC