Travellers give wings to novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa015

Editorial

. 2020 Mar 13;27(2):taaa015.

doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa015.

Travellers give wings to novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Mary E Wilson^{1

2}, Lin H Chen^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, University of California, Mission Hall, 550 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA.
² Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
³ Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, 330 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Boston, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

PMID: 32010938
PMCID: PMC7107561
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaa015

Editorial

Travellers give wings to novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Mary E Wilson et al. J Travel Med. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 13;27(2):taaa015.

doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa015.

Authors

Mary E Wilson^{1

2}, Lin H Chen^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, University of California, Mission Hall, 550 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA.
² Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
³ Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, 330 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Boston, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

PMID: 32010938
PMCID: PMC7107561
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaa015

Abstract

A novel coronavirus, probably of bat origin, has caused an outbreak of severe respiratory infection in humans in Wuhan, China and has been dispersed globally by travelers. The WHO has declared the spread of the infection a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

Keywords: MERS; SARS; Wuhan; airborne; bats; cross-species spread; live animal markets; novel coronavirus; one health; respiratory; spillover; super-spreader.

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