A second case of the dreaded disease coronavirus has been recorded in the United State of America.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States (US) confirmed the case on Friday, January 24.
The second patient recorded in America is a woman of approximately 60 years old.
The patient had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Chicago before her case was officially recorded as coronavirus.
Reports have it that the woman had travelled to Wuhan in December 2019, but returned to Illinois earlier in January 2020 without any symptom of the disease. However, the diagnosis of her case has revealed that she is responding to treatment at the centre in the US.
Bloomberg report that healthcare authorities in the US have expressed fears that there are chances of the spread of the disease. In fact, the centre said that it is presently studying over 60 persons and many more travellers from Wuhan.
Nancy Messonnier, the CDC’s national centre for immunization and respiratory diseases, said: “We are expecting more cases in the U.S. and we are likely going to see some cases among close contacts of travellers and human-to-human transmission.” Coronavirus started in the Wuhan part of China recently.
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