Friday, May 10, 2013

#Coronavirus: 3rd Suspected Case in relation to France 65(M) - 3 articles

Another contact of the Index Case in France 65(M).  3 articles posted below:
May 10, 2013
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A third suspected case of coronavirus has been reported in France. A nurse who had been in contact with the first confirmed patient may have contracted the potentially fatal condition alongside a doctor and a patient in a hospital in northern France.

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May 10, 2013
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A nurse in a hospital that held France's only confirmed case of the SARS-like coronavirus that has killed 18 people has been admitted to hospital in northern France on suspicion on being infected herself, French health officials said on Friday.
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"We identified it overnight. It corresponds to the investigations we've been undertaking since our confirmed case of the coronavirus," said Sandrine Kueny, deputy director of the regional health agency.
The nurse worked in the hospital's infectious disease unit but it was unclear whether she had direct contact with the sick man.

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