The US has confirmed it will begin screening certain flights at San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles in a bid to stave off China's mysterious coronavirus.
The true scale of the outbreak of a mysterious SARS-like virus in China is likely far bigger than officially reported, scientists have warned, as countries ramp up measures to prevent the disease from spreading.
But a paper published Friday by scientists with the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College in London said the number of cases in the city was likely closer to 1,700. China has not announced any travel restrictions, but authorities in Hong Kong have already stepped up detection measures, including rigorous temperature checkpoints for inbound travellers from the Chinese mainland.
A World Health Organization doctor said it would not be surprising if there was"some limited human-to-human transmission, especially among families who have close contact with one another". "People should be considering the possibility of substantial human-to-human transmission more seriously than they have so far," he continued, saying it was"unlikely" that animal exposure was the sole source of infection.
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