Viral apocalypse

Several months ago, a newly discovered virus, related to the infamous SARS virus, killed 7 people in Saudi Arabia. Today it was announced that this virus has hospitalized a 65 year old man in France; he had apparently recently travelled to the Middle East.

So, while it took The Plague a few years to spread across continents, this new pathogen has travelled 1/4 the way around the world in a matter of months. 

Since we didn't all die a couple of years ago from the media-fueled epidemic of swine flu, be prepared for the top of the hour news telling us that this coronavirus will be our extinction event!