Thursday, April 16, 2009

Doctors find out whether Russia got SARS

четверг, 16 апреля 2009

From Blagoveshchensks train arrived in Moscow, where she died a citizen of China - one of the versions, death can occur from SARS.

Several cars were ottsepleny before arriving in Moscow: the health of more than 150 passengers check the sanitary-epidemiological service.

According to the preliminary diagnosis, 23-year-old citizen of China and died on Wednesday in a train "Samara-Moscow" as a result of pulmonary edema.

According to eyewitnesses, the girl felt ill while boarding the train in Chita.

Doctors promise to announce the exact cause of her death in a 7-10 days, when the results of tests.

At the moment, do not exclude that the Chinese could be a carrier of SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS, the international name - SARS).

"The autopsy showed the deceased woman that she was sick of atypical pneumonia," - said the agency RIA Novosti doctor a hospital Kirov, where for the disinfection was ottseplen wagon, which was traveling Chinese and other migrant workers from China.

However, in the opinion of the doctor "ambulance", which traveled in connection with the incident at the station, Kirov cause of death among Chinese may be, for example, enterovirus.

To consider other versions.

The communication with the Prosecutor's Office Investigation Committee of Russia stated that, according to a forensic examination, "passenger death was due to acute respiratory viral infection, pulmonary edema and cerebral edema."

Quarantine

In the Kirov 51 passengers and two agents of the wagon, where the Chinese had died, was sent to the city's isolation hospital. Four of the hospitalized passengers recorded a slight increase in temperature.

Two adjacent cars, which had 104 passengers and conductor, four were later ottsepleny at Sharya in the Kirov region, and sent to the medical gridlock.

As reported at the site "Russian Railways", arrived representatives of sanitary and epidemiological services of the region.

The rest of the trains arrived on Thursday at the Yaroslavl station in Moscow at 5:07 am Moscow time.

The train was met doctors and a group of police officers and OMON. According to official figures, there are no complaints about the health of the passengers were not, and they all left the station without hindrance.

SARS

About SARS first learned in 2002-2003, when a serious disease spread in China and then in neighboring Hong Kong and Vietnam.

It is believed that the disease was first observed in November 2002 in the Chinese province of Guangdong, but that it appears the Chinese authorities but did not report the World Health Organization.

Measures to prevent epidemics in other countries were taken late.

Among the symptoms of SARS - fever, dry cough, difficulty or rapid breathing, general intoxication of organism.

However, it is a risk that the disease is unpredictable (eg, malosimptomno) and it is difficult to diagnose in its early timing, pathogens can mutate, making it difficult to treat.

The virus is transmitted primarily by airborne droplets, possibly through contamination of objects used by the patient.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), during the epidemic in 30 countries worldwide SARS infected 8,000 people, about 10% of them died. One case of SARS was reported in Russia - in the Amur region.

In 2003, WHO declared the end of SARS, after this was recorded only a few cases.
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