1:18 p.m. ET, January 22, 2020
CDC testing several people in US for possible Wuhan virus
From CNN Health’s Elizabeth Cohen
Amid an international outbreak of the deadly Wuhan coronavirus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has received specimens from several people in the United States who've traveled to Wuhan, China, or who’ve had close contact with “someone under investigation,” according to CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund.
Nordlund did not say whether these tests have been completed and the results are still unknown.
The Wuhan coronavirus has killed 17 people and sickened more than 500, mostly in China but also in other countries such as Thailand, Japan, South Korea and the United States.
The CDC has the only laboratory in the United States that can test for this new virus.
On Tuesday, the CDC announced that the United States had its first case of the Wuhan coronavirus, a man in his 30s who lives in Washington, where he is hospitalized. The man recently returned from Wuhan.