{"id":3968,"date":"2020-01-31T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2021-02-16T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:11:29","slug":"transmission-of-2019-ncov-infection-from-an-asymptomatic-contact-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/31\/transmission-of-2019-ncov-infection-from-an-asymptomatic-contact-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission of 2019-nCoV Infection from an Asymptomatic Contact in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On 1\/28 potential asymptomatic transmission of 2019-nCoV was identified in Germany. A new report indicates a second person was infected by the same asymptomatic traveler from China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The virus seems to have been transmitted during the index patient\u2019s incubation period. Once symptoms did develop, the index patient experiences brief and nonspecific symptoms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">High sputum viral load in the first asymptomatically-infected patient raises concerns about potential prolonged viral shedding after recovery.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rothe et al. (Jan 30, 2020). Transmission of 2019-nCoV Infection from an Asymptomatic Contact in Germany. NEJM. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc2001468?query=featured_coronavirus\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc2001468?query=featured_coronavirus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1\/28 potential asymptomatic transmission of 2019-nCoV was identified in Germany. A new report indicates a second person was infected by the same asymptomatic traveler from China. The virus seems to have been transmitted during the index patient\u2019s incubation period. Once symptoms did develop, the index patient experiences brief and nonspecific symptoms. High sputum viral&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/31\/transmission-of-2019-ncov-infection-from-an-asymptomatic-contact-in-germany\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}