LILLE (Reuters) - The health of the second patient carrying the coronavirus (NCoV) deteriorated further during the night of Sunday to Monday, announced Monday the Lille University Hospital where the man is hospitalized
"The doctors found a respiratory deterioration occurred on the night of Sunday to Monday. Has been placed under assisted ventilation by respirator Monday morning. His condition is not yet stabilized," reads a statement.
This man of fifty years has shared his room at the hospital in Valenciennes (North) for four days with the first carrier. He was admitted to the intensive care unit Sunday after an initial deterioration of his health.
The first identified patient, a man aged 65, presents the statement of the University Hospital in respiratory failure and is still under extracorporeal assistance. No sign of improvement is observed by doctors, who consider her "permanent and serious" condition.
This new development accredits advanced Sunday by WHO hypothesis of human transmission of NCoV - a virus similar to SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), which had several hundred deaths in China in 2003 - the source and mode transmission are formally established. http://fr.reuters.com/article/topNews/idFRPAE94C02I20130513?rpc=401
