"The experience from the first SARS outbreak is helping us now," virologist John Oxford from the Queen Mary University of London told AFP as the world is dealing with another coronavirus like the one that caused SARS and has killed eight people since it was first detected mid-2012.

The most important lessons cited by experts include information sharing, rapidly raising the global alert, and finding and containing the outbreak source.

"We have learnt that...read more here: What have we learned from SARS?