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Health Officials Worldwide Working To Contain Coronavirus From Further Spreading

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Health Officials Worldwide Working To Contain Coronavirus From Further Spreading
Health Officials Worldwide Working To Contain Coronavirus From Further Spreading
Stephanie Stahl reports.

AND, TWO DOSES ARE BETTER THANONE FOR CHILDREN, EIGHT ANDUNDER.HEALTH OFFICIALS WORLDWIDEARE WORKING TO CONTAIN THECORONA VIRUS THAT HAS SPREADTO SEVERAL COUNTRIES IN AMATTER OF DAYS.SIT IS IN CHINA ARE WILL BEDOWN.AND AIRPORTS IN THE UNITEDSTATES ARE SCREENINGPASSENGERS.SEVERAL POTENTIAL CASES BEINGCHECK BUT THERE IS CURRENTLYJUST ONE CONFIRMED CASE INWASHINGTON STATE.AND HEALTH REPORTERSTEPHANIE STAHL IS HERE NEW ASCONCERN CONTINUES TO GROWABOUT THIS VIRUS.THAT IS RIGHT, NUMBERS AREBIG BUT THERE IS NO INDICATIONTHAT THIS IS A THREAT TO THEUNITED STATES.AT THIS POINT THERE ARE ATLEAST 17 PEOPLE DEAD, IN CHINAAND MORE THAN 600 CONFIRMEDINFECTED.TODAY THE WORLD HEALTHORGANIZATION SAYS THAT THECORONA VIRUS IS NOT YET AGLOBAL HEALTHY MERGECY.SO HOSPITAL STAFF INPHILADELPHIA AND AROUND THECOUNTRY ARE NOW ASKINGPATIENTS WITH FLU-LIKESYMPTOMS ABOUT THEIR TRAVELHISTORY.WE DON'T HAVE THECAPABILITY TO ACTUALLY TESTFOR DOREEN A VIRUS BUT WE HAVECAPABILITY OF TESTING FOR THEFLU.REPORTER: EMERGENCYDEPARTMENT PHYSICIAN SAM CRAFTSAYS PATIENT WAS FLU-LIKESYMPTOMS ARE BEING ASKED IFTHEY TRAVELED TO CHINA BECAUSECORONA VIRUS ALSO CAUSES AFEVER AND A COUGH.THERE ARE IN REPORTED CASES INTHE PHILADELPHIA REGION.DEADLY LUNG INFECTION THATSPREAD LIKE A COMMON COLDSICKENS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLENAMELY, IN CHINA.THERE IS ONE CONFIRMED U.S.CASE IN SEATTLE, EPICENTER OFTHE OUTBREAK IS IN HUWANTCHINA THEY MADE LOOKDIFFERENT.REPORTER: ZACHARY ANEUROLOGIST AT PHILADELPHIAUNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES SAYIT APPEARS THAT THE VIRUSSIMILAR TO STARS STARTED WITHSNAKES.THERE IS A SNAKE VIRUS THATCAN BE TRANSMITTED INTOHUMANS.PRESUMABLY HANDLING THE SNAKESIN THE MARKET LIKE SOMEONE CANINHALE THIS AND THEN GET SICK.REPORTER: AND SPREAD HUMANTO HUMAN.THAT IS IMPORTANT POINTTHAT PEOPLE WERE NOT SURE OFFOR A WHILE WHETHER OR NOT ISTHERE HUMAN TO HUMAN SPREAD.IT DOES SEEM LIKE THAT ISHAPPENING.REPORTER: NOW THIS IS ARESPIRATORY VIRUS, SPREADTHROUGH THE AIR, COUGHING,SNEEZING BUT IT IS UNCLEARJUST HOW CONTAGIOUS THISCORONA VIRUS IS.WHILE THERE ARE FEARS ABOUTTHIS NEWLY IDENTIFIED VIRUS,DOCTORS SAY THAT THE FLU IS AMUCH BIGGER THREAT IN THEIT KILLS, TENSE OF THOUSANDSOF AMERICANS EVERY YEAR AND WEARE CURRENTLY AT THE HEIGHT OFTHE FLU SEASON.SO PERSPECTIVE IS REALLYIMPORTANT HERE.EVERYBODY GETS VERY EXCITEDIT IS OVERSEAS RIGHT NOW.WE HAVE NO INDICATION THAT ITWILL SPREAD IN THE UNITEDSTATES.SPEAKING OF WHICH WEMENTION THAT HAD ONE CASE INTHE NORTHWEST IN WASHINGTON.CORRECT.COULD THAT PERSON HAVEFLOWN IT OVER.REPORTER: ABSOLUTELY ANDTHEY HAVE ACTUALLY IDENTIFIEDTHAT THIS PERSON WAS IN THEAREA IN CHINA WHERE THISINITIALLY SPREAD FROM.UM, UM.AND I THOUGHT TOO IT COMESFROM SNAKES.I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGHT.REPORTER: IT IS CRAZY.IN CHINA THEY ARE IN MARKETS,THEY ARE USED ALL THE TIME.THE HANDLING OF THESE SNAKESIS WHAT GETS IT INTO THE AIR,PEOPLE BREATHE THIS AND THENIT SPREADS THROUGH HUMAN TO

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