First travel-related case of 2019 novel coronavirus detected in United States: press release, Tuesday, January 21, 2020

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• Personal Author:
  Haynes, Ben ; Messonnier, Nancy E. ; Cetron, Martin S.
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  For Immediate Release: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed the first case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the United States in the state of Washington. The patient recently returned from Wuhan, China, where an outbreak of pneumonia caused by this novel coronavirus has been ongoing since December 2019. While originally thought to be spreading from animal-to-person, there are growing indications that limited person-to-person spread is happening. It’s unclear how easily this virus is spreading between people.
  
  The patient from Washington with confirmed 2019-nCoV infection returned to the United States from Wuhan on January 15, 2020. The patient sought care at a medical facility in the state of Washington, where the patient was treated for the illness. Based on the patient’s travel history and symptoms, healthcare professionals suspected this new coronavirus. A clinical specimen was collected and sent to CDC overnight, where laboratory testing yesterday confirmed the diagnosis via CDC’s Real time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (rRT-PCR) test.
  
  For more information about the current outbreak in China, visit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html. For travel health information, visit https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/watch/pneumonia-china.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Airports Communicable Disease Control Communicable Diseases, Emerging Coronavirus Infections COVID-19 Disease Notification Mass Screening Pneumonia Respiratory Tract Infections Travel
• Series:
  Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Press Release
• Place as Subject:
  China ; United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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