The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to closely monitor an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that was initially detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in December 2019.
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HEALTH ALERT #164 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Outbreak
There is a rapidly expanding outbreak in China of respiratory illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus abbreviated “2019-nCoV”. This virus is spreading from person-to-person in China and exported cases have been detected in a growing number of countries internationally. Imported cases of 2019-nCoV infection in people have been detected in the US. While limited person-to-person spread among close contacts has been detected in the US, there is currently no evidence that 2019-nCoV is actively spreading across US communities.