A Chicago woman is the second confirmed coronavirus patient in the U.S., and more than 60 people are being monitored in 22 states.
A second traveler returning to the U.S. from China has been diagnosed with the coronavirus that has sickened hundreds of people and prompted travel lockdowns in China, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
The new U.S. patient is a woman from Chicago in her 60s who visited Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak, in December and returned to the U.S. on Jan. 13, said Jennifer Layden, chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for the Illinois Department of Public Health.The first U.S. case was a man in his 30s who traveled to Wuhan and arrived back in the U.S. on Jan. 15, Washington state health officials said Tuesday.
“We are expecting more cases in the U.S. and we are likely going to see some cases among close contacts of travelers and human-to-human transmission,” said Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
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