We could see some drilling in the second half of 2017 but they still have to determine whether there are reserves that can be extracted economically and it would likely be 2018 at the earliest before a decision to move into full production would be taken.

John Williams

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These things are more difficult than [ identifying ] dinosaurs, because there's no fossil record of a virus, for example, the main virus I study, human metapneumovirus, is clearly a virus that has circulated in humans for decades if not a few centuries.

SARS caused death in about 10 % of people that became infected and it did spread person to person but not super effectively, there weren't many people walking around without symptoms or with mild symptoms, who could be spreading it.How do you manage fighting kids during a lockdown ? We asked the experts.

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome is extremely deadly, about 30 % of people who are infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome will die, so the virus got over one of the barriers -- it's able to infect humans, grow in them and cause disease -- but thankfully it really doesn't spread well person to person, other than very, very close contacts.