CDC to screen at three US airports for signs of new virus from China

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More than 100 staffers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being deployed to three US airports to check passengers arriving from Wuhan, China, for fever and other symptoms of a mysterious new virus in China

It's a highly unusual step. The last time the CDC did routine passenger health screening was during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, according to Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the CDC's division of global migration and quarantine.

"Considering global travel patterns, additional cases in other countries are likely," the World Health Organization stated in a press release Thursday. "This is not a time for people to freak out and be overly concerned," Cetron said."This is a time for vigilance and awareness." Chinese health authorities have reported that most of the patients in Wuhan had visited a large seafood and animal market. However, some patients in the outbreak reportedly had not been to animal markets, which suggests that"some limited person-to-person spread may be occurring," according to the CDC.

 

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the center for disease control and prevention knew that the virus from china originated from Human Feces. since the ASF outbreak nobody in PH has acquired a certificate from the U.S Center for Disease Control & Prevention. Not even china(takot silang malaman ang katotohanan).

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