The patient in Japan, a man in his 30s, had traveled to Wuhan, China, but had not visited the city's large seafood market that's been linked to many coronavirus cases.
"Considering global travel patterns, additional cases in other countries are likely," the World Health Organization said.The patient in Japan, a man in his 30s, had traveled to Wuhan, China, but had not visited the city's large seafood market that's been linked to many coronavirus cases.
The market in Wuhan was shut down and disinfected Jan. 1, but new cases of the virus have appeared since then suggest that the risk of disease transmission is not over. SARS, a severe type of coronavirus,"mutated while spreading through the wet animal markets, which allowed it to better transmit between people," Fehr said.
"The concern is as much about the outbreak in Wuhan as is is about the virus being in bats in other wet markets in," Perlman said, noting that there are lots of different coronaviruses circulating among bats in south and east China.
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