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cvs thermometer, Siegel said Americans should be impressed and reassured by how the U.S. health agencies have been handling the outbreak and are supportive of the current travel restrictions and research going into fast-tracking potential vaccines. SIGN UP FOR THE FOX HEALTH NEWSLETTER Siegel credits their experience in recent measles and flu outbreaks in helping to prepare them for illnesses such as coronavirus, which includes formulating plans to identify the illness, isolate the cases and perform thorough contact tracing in an effort to contain the spread.

cvs thermometer - What he’s concerned about, he said, is if the coronavirus becomes comfortable mutating and transmitting from person to person. “Once it gets embedded in the human population, it could be here to stay,” he said, citing similar worst-case-scenario fears that officials once held about SARS and the H1N1 influenza virus. Those fears, he noted, were later determined to be unfounded. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP For now, Siegel expects the death rate of coronavirus to stay stable. But predicting the impact the illness will have depends on careful monitoring of the rate of spread, which he believes will diminish as the warmer weather sets in. What would set it apart from the other viral outbreaks we’ve seen, he said, is if it returns in the fall or winter, which was not the case with SARS.

cvs thermometer, Foreign nationals who have traveled to China within the last 14 days will be temporarily denied entry into the U.S.; Jonathan Serrie reports from Atlanta. A South Korean woman has tested positive for the novel coronavirus after taking a trip to Thailand — marking the first time a foreign tourist has become infected after visiting the country. The 42-year-old woman, identified as Patient 16, flew back to South Korea on Jan. 19. On Jan. 25, she sought treatment after “developing chills” and other symptoms of the illness, Reuters reported, citing South Korean health officials. She was confirmed to have the new coronavirus on Sunday.

cvs thermometer - MAN WITH CORONAVIRUS CLAIMS HE OVERCAME ILLNESS WITH 'HOT WHISKEY AND HONEY' It’s not clear if the woman had been to China in recent weeks, but health officials noted there’s a chance she was infected in Thailand. “It’s possible because the virus is already spreading domestically in Thailand,” Tanarak Plipat, deputy director-general of the Thai Department of Disease Control, told Reuters. “Tourists, naturally, are in places full of foreign tourists and thus are likely to be in areas of disease transmission,” Plipat added to the Bangkok Post. 

cvs thermometer - CORNELL UNIVERSITY SEES POSSIBLE CORONAVIRUS CASE IN STUDENT  To date, there are now 25 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Thailand, which has the most cases of the virus outside of China, the New York Post reported. On Friday, Thai officials confirmed its first case of person-to-person transmission in a taxi driver, according to Reuters.