Coronavirus Potential New Paths of Transmission Put Global Authorities on Edge
The fight to contain the coronavirus entered a new and potentially alarming phase on Thursday as public health officials in the United States and Germany grappled with patients who exhibited no known connection to others with the illness.
That raised the possibility that the virus could have begun to spread locally by an as yet unknown means, or that infected people had spread the illness to others sequentially, making it virtually impossible for the authorities to find and isolate the origin.
Either way, the two cases, thousands of miles apart, underscored how quickly the virus was making its way around the globe after first emerging in China late last year, and how difficult it was proving to contain.
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