Human-to-human transmission confirmed for mystery China virus
A quarantine officer at Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, checking the temperature of passengers arriving from Wuhan, China, and Southeast Asia yesterday. The National Quarantine Station at the airport stepped up inspections after a Chinese woman tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus spreading in China. – EPA pic, January 21, 2020.
A TOP Chinese expert on infectious diseases has confirmed human-to-human transmission of a SARS-like virus that has spread across the country and reached three other Asian nations, state media reported today. Zhong Nanshan, a renowned scientist at the National Health Commission who helped expose the scale of the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , said human-to-human transmission is “affirmative”, said state broadcaster CCTV.
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