A new virus, known as a coronavirus, has now officially killed six and sickened more than 400, including a man in the U.S. -- though it is likely to have infected many more.
How quickly is it spreading?
So far, the virus has been passed from Wuhan to several other parts of China, including 117 suspected cases in Hong Kong, he says, and to travelers in Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the U.S., and maybe Australia.and quick spread could mean that many more people are getting the infection but don’t have symptoms, Mina says.
Aware of the new virus, the man told his health care provider right away that he might have been exposed, officials from Snohomish County say, so his caregivers had the right protection. He was placed in an isolation room at a local hospital in an abundance of caution, but he is not extremely ill, the officials said during a Tuesday telephone news conference.
The man from Snohomish County would not have been caught by such a screen because he was not feverish when traveling. But the effort is still worthwhile because it will contain the number of people who may have been exposed to the virus and will educate all passengers on how to respond if they become ill within a few days, Marty Cetron, MD, director of the CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, said during the Tuesday telephone news conference.
But the man is not very ill, Spitters said, and he “poses very little risk to staff or general public.”Although the virus was believed to have first infected people at a fish market, it is very unlikely that the disease is spread by fish, Lipkin says.
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