Screening will take place at the three U.S. airports with flights from Wuhan.
"I think it's highly plausible that there will be at least one case in the United States," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said Friday during a call with reporters."That's the reason we're moving forward so quickly with this screening."
Overall, CDC officials said they believe the current risk of the virus spreading in the U.S. is low. However,"we're concerned any time there is a new virus or new pathogen emerging in a population that hasn't seen it before," Messonnier said."What it means is that populations don't have existing immunity, and we don't have specific treatments or vaccines.". As of Friday afternoon, at least 45 cases had been reported in China.
Coronaviruses can cause a range of symptoms including a runny nose, cough, sore throat and fever. Some are mild, while others are more likely to lead to pneumonia. There's no indication this particular virus is as dangerous as SARS, another coronavirus that was first detected in China. The 2003 SARS outbreak reached more than two dozen countries, sickening 8,098 people. Nearly 800 died.
Since then, there have been no new cases of SARS reported anywhere in the world. Another coronavirus, MERS, is particularly deadly. It was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012, and causes severe respiratory illness, including fever, cough and shortness of breath, according to the
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