Travellers give wings to novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Mary E Wilson; Lin H Chen

doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa015

Travellers give wings to novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

J Travel Med. 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.

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.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Air Travel*
Animals
Betacoronavirus / genetics
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
Betacoronavirus / pathogenicity
COVID-19
China / epidemiology
Cluster Analysis
Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
Coronavirus Infections / veterinary
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Disease Transmission, Infectious*
Humans
Male
Mortality
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
Pneumonia, Viral / veterinary
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
SARS-CoV-2
Zoonoses*