( Reuters) – U.S. public health authorities have actually identified 4 “presumptive” coronavirus cases believed to have emerged from neighborhood transmission of the infection, indicating a turning point in strategies required to include the disease in the United States.
A lady wears a mask on Wall St. near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., February 28,2020 REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a declaration late on Friday mentioning 3 cases of unidentified origin freshly identified by state public health authorities – one each in California, Oregon and Washington state.
If validated by the CDC, in addition to a similar case of unidentified origin announced on Wednesday in California, that would bring to 4 the number of detected people in the United States with no history of travel to a country where the infection is circulating and no close contact with an infected person.
Taken together, the 4 cases are an indication the virus is now spreading within at least 4 different areas on the U.S. West Coast spanning nearly 900 miles (1,448 km), from California’s Silicon Valley region in Santa Clara County north to the Puget Sound near Seattle.
U.S. health authorities say it implies the breathing disease that has actually contaminated nearly 80,000 people and killed more than 2,800 in China, where it stemmed, is no longer an imported phenomenon but has resided in the United States.
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