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NEJM: Importation and Human-to-Human Transmission of a Novel Coronavirus in Vietnam

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The emergence and spread of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from Wuhan, China, has become a global health concern.[SUP]1[/SUP] Since the detection of the coronavirus in late December 2019, several countries have reported sporadic imported cases among travelers returning from China.[SUP]2[/SUP] We report one family cluster of 2019-nCoV originating from a Chinese man.

On January 22, 2020, a 65-year-old man with a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease for which a stent had been implanted, and lung cancer was admitted to the emergency department of Cho Ray Hospital, the referral hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, for low-grade fever and fatigue. He had become ill with fever on January 17, a total of 4 days after he and his wife had flown to Hanoi from the Wuchang district in Wuhan, where outbreaks of 2019-nCoV were occurring. He reported that he had not been exposed to a “wet market”(a market where dead and live animals are sold) in Wuhan.

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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001272
 
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