NOBILO: Chinese health officials are trying to identify a mystery illness that's affected dozens of people in Central China. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout tells us that officials have ruled out the return of the deadly SARS virus and believe that it's a strain of viral pneumonia.</s>KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: According to the World Health Organization symptoms include fever, with a number of patients having difficulty breathing. There are at least 59 cases. They've been reported in Wuhan. Seven patients reported to be in serious conditions, no deaths reported. China has not been able to identify this mysterious strain, but it has ruled out SARS and MERS. Several countries have issued travel advisories, including South Korea and Singapore.</s>NOBILO: Several victims of the mystery illness work at a food market that has live animals and local media report that it could be an illness that was passed from an animal to a human. So here's a question to finish off tonight's show. One for you to think about and perhaps one for your descendants to actively contemplate. Would you move to a planet that's similar to Earth and potentially habitable? Well, NASA says that they've found one. This one, to be precise. They say it's nearby in space terms. It's orbiting a star around 100 light years from Earth. It's called TOI 700 d. It's about 20% larger than Earth and it orbits its star, which is 40 percent as big as our sun and half as hot in 37 days. Initially, it was mischaracterized with scientists thinking that it was too hot to be similar to Earth. But it was left to a group of amateur astronomers, including a high school student to point out the error. The planet is in something called the Goldilocks zone, named after the fairy tale where Goldilocks finds that porridge that's just right - not too hot, not too cold. That's it for THE BRIEF this evening. I'm Bianca Nobilo and "WORLD SPORT" is up next.
China Trying To Identify Pneumonia Strain, Says It Is Not SARS; Potentially Habitable Earth Size Planet Discovered.