BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) - Hundreds of millions of Chinese web users have been furiously discussing the outbreak of a new deadly virusthat has killed six people and infected hundreds.

Posts on the infection spreading to medical staff - a development that marks a new phase of severity for the outbreak - were viewed more than 1 billion times on Weibo, a Chinese Twitter-like service, while a Beijing News editorial calling for a transparent system of information updates got more than 100,000 views on WeChat, the country's most popular messaging app.