Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

February 4, 2020

Emergence of a novel coronavirus causing respiratory illness from Wuhan, China

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  • Tang, et al. provide a brief synopsis of two Thai cases and a case from Japan, noting that these did not enter the specific “wet market” at the epicenter of the current epidemic and were not epi-linked to each other
  • They go on to cite the non-specific symptoms identified among the early cases; the lack of pediatric cases; and the need for seroprevalence surveys. 

Tang JW, et al. (2020) Emergence of a novel coronavirus causing respiratory illness from Wuhan, China, Journal of Infection. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.01.014