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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Detected a case of the new coronavirus in Spain


  • The patient, who remained during the month of October in Saudi Arabia, is stable

  • According to the Ministry of Health, 'no risk to public health in Spain'

  • To date 63 deaths have been reported and 150 cases confirmed

  • United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, other European countries with cases

Image of a strain of the family of coronaviruses.
Image of a strain of the family of coronaviruses. AFP
The Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has reported the detection of an imported case in Spain with laboratory evidence for human infection with the novel coronavirus. A pathogen of the same family as the SARS virus that generated 10 years ago 8,000 infections and 700 deaths.
The new affected woman is a resident of Spain, born in Morocco, who had traveled to Saudi Arabia and is admitted to the Hospital Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda (Madrid), where they have taken all over the case, well as possible contacts as operating procedures agreed between the Ministry and the autonomous.
According to the director explained how the Coordinating Center and Emergency Health Alerts, Fernando Simón, it is "a woman of 61 years who was in Saudi Arabia between October 2 and November 1" and "initiated a respiratory symptoms with fever and cough on October 15, "according to Efe.
After that, "the 28 and October 20 began a process in which he was diagnosed with pneumonia in a hospital in Saudi Arabia." Later, Simon explained that she "traveled back to Spain on November 1 and was diagnosed back in Puerta de Hierro".
At present, the patient has a "developing pneumonia with severe respiratory problem", while in "stable condition and evolving favorably".... http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elmundo.es%2Fsalud%2F2013%2F11%2F06%2F527a753863fd3d301d8b458f.html