Q&A: WHO representative addresses China`s new virus outbreak
(WorldNews Health)

BEIJING (AP) - Shortly before authorities closed off the Chinese city at the epicenter of an outbreak of a new virus, the World Health Organization sent a team led by country representative Gauden Galea to check conditions on the ground in Wuhan, an inland city of more than 11 million people. The five-member team on Monday and Tuesday visited a local biosafety lab, a branch of China´s Center for Disease Control, a hospital retrofitted with increased safety protocols and the airport. Galea spoke with health care workers, epidemiology inspectors and city officials who described and demonstrated how authorities are tracking, treating and...