This week, a virus that has led to the deaths of several people in China reportedly landed on Australian shores.

How worried should we be? 

Today we look at the 2019-NC0V or Novel Coronavirus, find out what it does, where it came from and why there's so much talk about it becoming an epidemic.

CREDITS 

Host/Producer: Claire Murphy 

Executive Producer: Melanie Tait

Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri 

Thanks to our special guests Dr Matt Killingsworth, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Tasmania and Dr Sanjaya Senanayake, Infectious Disease Specialist, Professor of Medicine at Canberra's Australian National University.

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