A new strain of coronavirus claims another life....this time in France.<br/> <br />A 65-year-old man who had been travelling in Dubai has died from the illness, the French health ministry said.<br/> <br />He was the first Frenchman to fall ill from the SARS-like coronavirus.<br/> <br />The World Health Organisation says the virus, which causes coughing, fever and pneumonia, can likely be passed between humans, but only after prolonged, close contact.<br/> <br />Out of 44 confirmed cases worldwide, 23 people have now died with most of those infected having travelled in the Middle East.<br/> <br />A virus from the same family triggered the SARS outbreak in Asia that killed 775 people in 2003.
