{"id":3889,"date":"2020-01-27T19:45:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T19:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vistasolmedicalgroup.com\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2020-01-27T19:45:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T19:45:46","slug":"what-is-the-coronavirus-illness-blamed-for-multiple-deaths-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vistasolmedicalgroup.com\/what-is-the-coronavirus-illness-blamed-for-multiple-deaths-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the coronavirus illness blamed for multiple deaths in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officials in China are racing to contain a deadly new strain of virus that has infected more than 2,700 people and left at least 81 dead. Chinese officials have&nbsp;blocked all transportation in and out of the city of Wuhan and surrounding areas, where the outbreak of the &#8220;2019 novel coronavirus&#8221; or &#8220;2019-nCoV&#8221; originated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five cases of the illness have been confirmed in the United States \u2014 all in people who had recently traveled from Wuhan, China. U.S. health officials&nbsp;confirmed the first case&nbsp;on Tuesday, involving a man in his 30s in Seattle. The second case was confirmed Friday in a woman in her 60s in Chicago. Health officials said she was &#8220;doing well.&#8221; Over the weekend, two additional cases were confirmed in California and one in Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that more than 60 people in 22 states were&nbsp;being monitored for possible infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>China locks down cities in unprecedented effort to contain coronavirus<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials believe the virus was initially transmitted from animals to humans, but that&nbsp;human-to-human transmission&nbsp;of the flu-like illness is now occurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is a coronavirus?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses that can cause illnesses as minor as a cold, or as serious as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), according to the World Health Organization. They often present with pneumonia-like symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The viruses can be transmitted from animals to humans; the virus that causes SARS, for example, was originally transmitted to humans from a cat-like animal called a civet. But in some instances, as appears to be the case with this new strain of coronavirus, they can also be transmitted between humans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization said there are multiple known coronaviruses circulating in animals that have not yet been transmitted to humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did the new strain start?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak began in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people. Many of the early patients were reportedly linked to Hua Nan Seafood Wholesale Market, a large seafood and animal market in the city, according to CBS News&#8217; Ramy Inocencio. But since then, a rising number of people have apparently contracted the virus without exposure to the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The market was closed on January 1, 2020 for &#8220;environmental sanitation and disinfection,&#8221; according to the World Health Organization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How many people have died?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 81 people have died from the illness, according to Chinese officials. Most of those deaths occurred in Wuhan, which is in the central Hubei province. The first death was reported January 9.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the virus originated around Wuhan, cases have also been reported in Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, the U.S., Australia and France.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How is it transmitted?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s well-established that coronaviruses can spread from animals to humans, according to the World Health Organization. But health officials confirmed there have been cases in which this virus has spread from human to human.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese state-run media quoted Zhong Nanshan, a scientist at the China&#8217;s National Health Commission, as saying such transmission was &#8220;affirmative.&#8221; The scientist did not say how many cases were the result of human-to-human transmission \u2014 but in one case, a hospital patient is said to have infected 14 medical workers, reports Inocencio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s being done to stop the spread?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization convened an emergency committee on the virus in Geneva, Switzerland. It said Thursday that the outbreak does not rise to the level of being designated an international public health emergency, but WHO will continue working with nations to contain it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile in the U.S., the CDC deployed public health workers to screen passengers arriving from Wuhan at five major ports of airline entry: New York-JFK, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago-O&#8217;Hare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC said it has developed a test to diagnose the virus. Currently, that test must be administered at the CDC, but the organization is working to share the test with domestic and international partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Hong Kong, which was ravaged by SARS&nbsp;in 2002 and 2003, hospitals upped their alert level to &#8220;serious&#8221; and implemented temperature checkpoints for inbound travelers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While China has closed transportation in and out of Wuhan and 12 other cities, there are concerns that as hundreds of millions of people travel around the country to celebrate the Chinese New Year, the virus could spread even faster.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in China are racing to contain a deadly new strain of virus that has infected more than 2,700 people and left at least 81 dead. 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