Though no deaths have been reported so far, the highly unusual outbreak has health officials around the world scrambling to understand how the virus is spreading and to ensure there are enough vaccines and treatments on hand should it pick up speed.
“We should expect to see more cases and more tests in the coming days”, Raj Panjabi, senior director for Global Health Security and Biodefense in the White House, said during the press briefing.
The World Health Organization said last week that the outbreak presented a “moderate” risk to global public health. On Thursday, Maria Van Kerkhove, who leads emerging diseases and zoonoses teams at the WHO, said the organization suspects that person-to-person transmission has been happening for weeks in Europe....
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