Americans travelling in China should avoid animals and contact with sick people as the country grapples with a mystery pneumonia outbreak, the U.S. embassy in China said Tuesday.
The viral illness was first reported last week in Wuhan, a central Chinese city with a population of over 11 million, and has since grown to at least 59 cases.
The outbreak of pneumonia comes just a few weeks before China's busiest travel season of the year, when millions of people take buses, trains and planes for Lunar New Year. In Hong Kong, authorities say 30 people have been hospitalized after returning from Wuhan in recent days and displaying flu-like illnesses but none were confirmed to have contracted the mystery new strain.Nonetheless, officials have raised the alert level to "serious" and rolled out extra monitoring measures.
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