The outbreak of a coronavirus originating from Wuhan, China, has caused a spike in web searches for a virus related to the Corona beer from Mexico.

Searches for Corona, Corona Beer, and Corona Beer Virus spiked on @Google. Mistypes? Or consumer confusion? pic.twitter.com/q39lNYrT5K — Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) January 28, 2020

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In the United States, Google Trends said it had seen a spike in searches for Corona as well as "beer virus" and "corona beer virus."

It said that 57 percent of the people that searched one of those terms searched for "beer virus," with the other 43 percent searching for "corona beer virus," according to USA Today.