China Coronavirus: WHO Declares Global Emergency; First Person-to-Person Transmission in US Confirmed
(Worthy News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday declared a global emergency over the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China, and U.S. health authorities reported the first confirmed case in the United States of a patient with no recent history of travel to Wuhan, the outbreak epicenter.
The previous five confirmed cases of respiratory illness caused by the virus in the U.S. – in Iowa, California, Washington, and Arizona – were all individuals who had recently been in the Chinese city where the outbreak emerged in December, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
But the new, sixth case is a patient who “shared a household with” one of the earlier five. [ Source: CNS News (Read More…) ]
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