What's A 'Super-Spreading Event'? And Has It Happened With COVID-19?
At least 11 cases of the viral disease are linked to a British man's ski trip to the Alps after attending a conference in Singapore.
Last month, a British man went to a conference in Singapore, then on a ski trip to the French Alps.
What he didn't know when he arrived in the Alps was that he was infected with the virus behind the COVID-19 outbreak.
During his stay at a ski village, it appears he infected 11 other people, who subsequently traveled on to the U.K. and Spain, the World Health Organization says.
Early estimates for the new coronavirus suggest that the average infected person spreads the disease to two to three other people. But this man's ski trip caused a cluster of cases.
Some have described to call it that — and that officials believe they caught the situation before it ignited a chain that could have spread COVID-19 throughout Europe.
