ADInglesby said he is confident that hospitals in the five cities that could receive passengers on flights from Wuhan, China — the epicenter of the outbreak — have been warned to be on alert. Under new precautions, anyone traveling from Wuhan will be funneled to airports in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago or Atlanta. ADAt UCLA and Emory University hospitals, nurses and doctors in the emergency room already ask open-ended questions about travel, officials said. ADIdentification of the SARS virus in 2003 took months, and developing a reliable test for the virus took even longer. ADHow were 14 health-care workers in China infected — from one incident or from numerous patients?

Source: Washington Post January 23, 2020 00:59 UTC