Novel Coronavirus Infection Claims 2 More Lives, Raising Toll To 11

[News_Editor]

MUNICH, GERMANY (BNO NEWS) -- An elderly man from the United Arab Emirates who was infected with the new novel coronavirus (nCoV) died at a hospital in southern Germany on Tuesday, international health authorities said, while another patient in the United Kingdom also succumbed to the SARS-like virus.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it had been informed by the Robert Koch Institute in Germany that a 73-year-old man from the United Arab Emirates died on Tuesday. The patient had been flown by air ambulance from a hospital in Abu Dhabi to Munich on March 19 before being diagnosed with the novel coronavirus on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the index patient in a family cluster in Britain also died of the illness, raising the overall death toll to eleven. The victim had remained in intensive care for more than a month before and investigations previously revealed that the man had recently traveled to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

The new nocoronavirus first emerged in the Middle East last year and is part of a group of viruses that causes ailments such as the common cold and SARS. Investigators say there is still no evidence of continuous human-to-human transmission.
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[ZhouZhou]

the beginning?

[Chicog]

The beginning?

[geriatrickid]

This has been hushed up for many months. There is a sensitivity towards causing a panic in respect to Arabs and Pakistanis. Remember the SARS epidemic? People panicked and avoided asians.

[Scott]

Any idea of how dangerous this virus is?

[ZhouZhou]

This has been hushed up for many months. There is a sensitivity towards causing a panic in respect to Arabs and Pakistanis. Remember the SARS epidemic? People panicked and avoided asians.

white people panicked?

[ZhouZhou]

Any idea of how dangerous this virus is?

it is deadly.

[Carib]

We are all doomed.......again.

[Potosi]

17 people infected, 11 of them dead, that's about 65%. Can't be very contagious, 17 people infected in 9 months isn't many.

The virus is related to a strain found in bats. Where can I get Forsythia?

[F430murci]

Yeah, corona virus are particularly nasty. They have protein chain around them and they cause a cytokine storm in the lungs so your body effectively keeps attacking live healthy tissue even after virus is gone. I think it can cause accrue renal failure also.

[geriatrickid]

Any idea of how dangerous this virus is?

Based upon the reports; it is resistant to treatment and quite lethal. The big concern is the drawdown on resources (isolation ward, respirators, ICU facilities). If only 1000 patients are infected in the UK, the hospitals would be near shutdown trying to cope.

Apparently, it took a long time to figure out what it was, and it was only by chance that a breakthrough happened as one of the UK doctors was able to be contacted by one of the (gulf state doctors _ I think it was Saudi). The local physician had been told to keep quiet by the public health agency, but instead disobeyed the order and sent his info and suspicions to the UK. This occurred at the time of the initial case. We had a thread on this when the story first broke and I believe I posted the info at the time.