{"id":29736,"date":"2020-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/07\/american-embassy-in-china-issues-health-alert-over-illness-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T17:10:06","slug":"american-embassy-in-china-issues-health-alert-over-illness-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/07\/american-embassy-in-china-issues-health-alert-over-illness-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"American Embassy in China Issues Health Alert Over Illness Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Embassy advising Americans to immediately seek medical care if they feel ill after being in Wuhan<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Jan. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A mysterious pneumonia outbreak in China has prompted the U.S. embassy there to warn Americans traveling in the country to avoid contact with sick people and animals.<\/p>\n<p>Since the viral illness was first reported last week in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the number of cases has increased to at least 59, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be aware and practice usual precautions,&#8221; said the health alert issued Tuesday by the U.S. embassy. It advised Americans to seek medical care &#8220;right away&#8221; if they felt ill after being in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>Fears have spread online that the highly contagious SARS virus &#8212; which caused hundreds of deaths more than a decade ago &#8212; has returned, but Chinese health officials have ruled that out, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/china-pneumonia-mystery-illness-outbreak-warning-us-embassy-americans-today-2020-01-07\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CBS News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/notices\/watch\/pneumonia-china\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information: CDC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embassy advising Americans to immediately seek medical care if they feel ill after being in Wuhan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-29736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}