China coronavirus: mild but infectious cases may make it hard to control outbreak, report warns

@article{Mahase2020ChinaCM,  title={China coronavirus: mild but infectious cases may make it hard to control outbreak, report warns},  author={Elisabeth Mahase},  journal={BMJ},  year={2020},  volume={368},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:210949384}}
Concerns are raised over reports of mildly symptomatic but infectious cases, which were not a feature of SARS, and Detecting and isolating these cases would be "extremely challenging,” considering the number of conditions.

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