Washington, United States
The number of people who are under surveillance in U.S for possible cases of coronavirus increased to 110, while maintaining five patients who have been confirmed carry the virus in the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday (CDC).
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Immunization Center and Respiratory diseases of the CDC, indicated that in the last hours the number of people under surveillance increased from 76 to 110 and that these are distributed throughout 26 states of the country.
The expert indicated that of the analyzes performed on possible patients of the coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV), 32 of them gave negative although, he said, he understands that “many people in the U.S are worried about this virus and how it will affect them. “
The latest data from the Chinese authorities are 80 dead and 2,744 people infected by the known as Wuhan virus, because this city of 11 million inhabitants was the outbreak epicenter.
Even though Messonier indicated that the risk to the general public in the US is still low at this time, the CDC continues to evaluate travelers arriving at airports from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta and JFK’s, In New York.
In total, so far they have examined about 2,400 people, explained the CDC in a teleconference
Rapid spread of the coronavirus
According to the expert, the CDC takes between four and six hours to make a diagnosis once the sample reaches its labs and they advance in their effort to make the laboratory kits to carry out the state health officials of the different states to carry out the screening tests from 2019-nCoV “in situ” to speed up the process.
It should be noted that the symptoms of the new virus it can take 2 to 14 days to appear, US medical authorities said.
The coronavirus they are a big family of virus that generally infect animals, but they can evolve and spread to humans.
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Between the symptom that can be found in humans are included fever, cough and shortness of breath, which can progress to pneumonia. Doctors have compared it to the outbreak of SARS in 2003, which had a short incubation period of two to seven days.
The CDC recommend that travelers avoid all non-essential trips to the province of Hubei (China), included Wuhan, which becomes a level 3 alert.
In addition, they warned that influenza and other respiratory diseases could complicate the identification of more cases. For this purpose, the CDC recommend that people call a provider of medical care before seeking treatment so that appropriate measures can be taken. EFE
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