NEW: California patient is 3rd US case of new virus from China.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A patient in Southern California is the third person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with the new pneumonia-like virus from China,The Centers for Disease Control confirmed a traveler from the Chinese city of Wuhan — the epicenter of the outbreak — tested positive for the virus, the Orange County Health Care Agency announced just before midnight Saturday.
The first known case in California comes on the heels of diagnoses in Washington state, on Jan. 21, and Chicago, on Jan. 24. Both patients — in Washington, a man in his 30s, and in Chicago, a woman in her 60s — had also traveled to China.
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