With four more cases reported, health officials fear a disease they do not yet fully understand could spread during a key Chinese holiday period.
Four more cases have been identified in a viral pneumonia outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan that has killed two people and prompted countries as far away as the United States to take precautionary measures.Chinese authorities say the latest cases bring the number of people who have contracted the illness to 45
At least a half-dozen countries in Asia have started screening incoming airline passengers from central China., which have together reported three cases of the disease in people who had come from Wuhan. It is an unusually busy travel period as people take trips to and from China around Lunar New Year, which falls on January 25 this year.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said it would deploy 100 people to take the temperatures and ask about symptoms of incoming passengers at the Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City's Kennedy airports.
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