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Friday, September 28, 2012

51 cases of Ebola identified in north-eastern DRC


GENEVA (Xinhua) - 51 cases of Ebola have been identified in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). There is, at present, 20 deaths, according to the latest update announced Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO). 


24 September 2012, 51 cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including 19 cases confirmed by laboratory tests and 32 probable cases. We found 20 deaths including 7 confirmed Ebola victims and 13 probable cases.

Cases were identified in the areas of health and Isiro Viadana both located in the Eastern Province of Haut-Uele. Currently, 28 cases are considered suspicious and inquiries are ongoing.
The Ministry of Health of the DRC continues to work with its partners together in a national control committee meets the World Health Organization (WHO), "Médecins sans Frontières" (MSF), the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the center of American Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Fund for Children's Aid (UNICEF). Together, they attempt to identify all possible routes of transmission of the disease and take appropriate measures to interrupt transmission and thereby put an end to the epidemic.
Local radio programs are also a fulcrum to circulate information and respond to questions of affected populations.
WHO and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response (GOARN) have deployed experts to support operations in place against the epidemic. Technical assistance has been strengthened by an expert for the prevention and control of infections to prevent the transmission of Ebola in community health facilities. Despite the situation, the WHO advises no travel in the region or in the DRC.  http://www.afriquinfos.com/articles/2012/9/28/debola-recenses-dans-nord-est-210486.asp

Action response of WHO and UNICEF hemorrhagic fever "Ebola" Isiro

Action response of WHO and UNICEF hemorrhagic fever "Ebola" Isiro
Kinshasa, 28/09 (ACP) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) has sent equipment and inputs Isiro, chief town of the district of Haut-Uele in the Eastern Province, as part of their joint response to the Ebola haemorrhagic fever.
According to the spokesman of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Kinshasa, Yvon Edounou, UNICEF was able, with air support from the UN Mission for Stabilization in DRC (MONUSCO) , issue of transport equipment (vehicles, 10 motorcycles and 80 bicycles) and communication materials to strengthen the fight against this epidemic.
These interventions, he said, are carried out with funding from $ 1.75 million as UNICEF and WHO received last week from the central base (CERF). In addition, 78 cases, including 32 deaths, have been recorded at September 24, 2012, by the International Coordinating Committee of Scientific and Technical fight against fever in the district of Haut-Uele, says it does. ACP / BUM. - 
http://www.acpcongo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12093:action-de-riposte-de-loms-et-de-lunicef-a-la-fievre-hemorragique-l-ebola-r-a-isiro&catid=41:sante&Itemid=62

Eastern Province: Ebola, 32 deaths since the beginning of the epidemic

Haemorrhagic fever Ebola has already been 83 cases of which thirty-two deaths Isiro, about 5000 km north-east of Kisangani, capital of Orientale Province. These statistics were given on Tuesday 25 September, during the evaluation meeting of the International Committee of daily fight against Ebola outbreak in Isiro.Based on this evaluation, the trend of contamination of the epidemic is declining with only one recorded case last week, says the district medical officer Acting Haut Uele..

http://radiookapi.net/actualite/2012/09/27/province-orientale-ebola-32-morts-depuis-le-debut-de-lepidemie/

NOVEL CORONAVIRUS - SAUDI ARABIA (07): EUROSURVEILLANCE REPORTS



In this post:
[1] Eurosurveillance editorial observations
[2] ECDC/HPA report & recommendations

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Yosemite Workers Tested For Hantavirus, Ordered To Keep Quiet



Nine people who spent time at the park this year have been infected with the rare virus, the majority after staying at the “Signature” cabins in Curry Village. Three of them died.
KTVU-TV Oakland said 100 park workers submitted to voluntary testing on Wednesday and they have been ordered not to discuss the testing...  http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/09/27/yosemite-workers-tested-for-hantavirus-ordered-to-keep-quiet/

New virus in Africa looks like rabies, acts like Ebola


A virus that killed two teenagers in Congo in 2009 is a completely new type, related to rabies but causing the bleeding and rapid death that makes Ebola infection so terrifying, scientists reported on Thursday. They’re searching for the source of the virus, which may be transmitted by insects or bats.
The new virus is being named Bas-Congo virus, for the area where it was found.  Researchers are finding more and more of these new viruses, in part because new tests make it possible, but also in the hope of better understanding them so they can prevent pandemics of deadly disease.
The virus infected a 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl in the same village in Congo in 2009. They didn’t stand a chance, says Joseph Fair ofMetabiota, a company that investigates pathogens. Fair is in the Democratic Republic of Congo now, under contract to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to help battle an ongoing Ebola outbreak.
“They expired within three days,” Fair said in a telephone interview. “It was a very rapid killer.”
A few days later a male nurse who cared for the two teenagers developed the same symptoms and survived. Samples from the lucky nurse have been tested and it turned out a completely new virus had infected him, Fair and other researchers report in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS pathogens.
The DNA sequences went to Dr. Charles Chiu, of the University of California, San Francisco.
“We were astounded that this patient had sequences in his blood from a completely unknown and unidentified virus,” Chiu said. They weren’t expecting that.
“Congo is very much known for having Ebola and Marburg outbreaks. Yet about 20 percent of the time we have hemorrhagic fever outbreaks that are completely negative, which means unknown causes and they are not Ebola.”
The sequencing puts this new virus on its own branch of the bad virus family tree -- somewhat related to Ebola and the virus that causes Lass   http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/27/14127587-new-virus-in-africa-looks-like-rabies-acts-like-ebola?

Coronavirus patient getting better: brother

Coronavirus patient getting better: brother
The brother of the Qatari man, who is being treated in a UK hospital after contracting an infection from the coronavirus, said that his brother’s condition was getting better now. “He is responding to treatment and the pneumonia has healed considerably,” he told local Arabic daily Arrayah. However, he criticised the lack of transparency at the  Supreme Council of Health (SCH). “The SCH statement that the patient had been transferred from Hamad Hospital to a British hospital lacked clarity. It was the patient’s family who  made all the arrangements to transfer him to Britain on a private  aircraft at their own  expense.” According to him, doctors at Hamad hospital failed in the diagnosis of the case. The brother explained that the patient began to feel short of breath and suffered different symptoms of severe flu a week after returning from a minor pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. “Yet, doctors at the Hamad hospital  gave him some antibiotics and told him he would be okay. In time, his condition deteriorated and he had to be sent abroad for treatment.” He admitted that the patient was being treated now at the State’s expense. http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=533990&version=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56

Ebola claims up to 33 lives in DR Congo- Ebola Baby dies


To date, there is no treatment nor vaccine for Ebola/AFP-File
KINSHASA, Sep 27 – An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have killed up to 33 people, while the number of suspected cases has risen, the health ministry said on Thursday.
A total of 79 cases were recorded, including 19 confirmed positive after laboratory analysis, 32 probable cases and 28 suspected cases, while 33 deaths were registered by September 25, the ministry announced. Seven of the deaths were proven to be caused by Ebola.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that the fatality rate was almost 42 percent.
The WHO added that a baby born prematurely in the isolation centre in Isiro – the epicentre of the epidemic in northeastern DR Congo – to a mother infected by the Ebola virus had died on Thursday, the statement said.
In DR Congo, it was the first time a pregnant Ebola patient had given birth, because “Ebola and pregnancy are almost incompatible,” Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said after the baby was born.
To date, there is no treatment nor vaccine for Ebola, which kills between 25 percent and 90 percent of patients depending on the strain of the virus. There have been eight outbreaks in DR Congo.
The disease is transmitted by direct contact with blood, faeces and sweat, by sexual contact and by unprotected handling of contaminated corpses.
Currently, 167 people who have been in contact with the 79 reported cases are under surveillance.
“We are in control of the situation, because we were able to make efforts in hospital measures – we have protective equipment,” added Kebela, who was on a mission to Isiro.
“We need to manage to follow all the contacts closely and regularly and to that end, we need to strengthen awareness among the population,” Benoit Kebela, the head of the health ministry’s unit to fight infectious diseases told AFP.
Among the 79 reported cases, 24 concern health workers.
“We are in control of the situation, because we were able to make efforts in hospital measures – we have protective equipment,” added Kebela, who was on a mission to Isiro.
An epidemic was declared in mid-August in Orientale province, but the international committee for the fight against Ebola has carried out research and dated the outbreak back to May.
The ministry of health, the WHO, the Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, and Doctors Without Borders (MSF – Medecins Sans Frontieres) are working in close collaboration to combat the outbreak. http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2012/09/ebola-claims-up-to-33-lives-in-dr-congo/

'New virus' man in stable condition



A man who contracted a potentially fatal Sars-like virus is now in a stable condition.
The 49-year-old, from Qatar, is being treated in an intensive care unit at St Thomas' hospital in London after he became infected with a new type of coronavirus.
A spokesman for the hospital confirmed that the man, who is still in isolation and is connected to an artificial lung to keep him alive, has been in a stable condition for the last two days.
He is receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (Ecmo) treatment, which delivers oxygen to the blood outside the body when the lungs are not able to. It also continuously pumps blood into and around the body.  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gVylXoK7wowy2XfkyDpz2NRdUTBw?docId=N0434941348743771002A

Health Council last to know the evolution of the case of a patient "Corona


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The patient's brother "Corona": Prince ensure treatment expenses
Situation improved citizen injured PAL "Corona"
Council did not know about the situation until after the announcement of the news from the World Health
Family transferred him to London Swiss plane
Hamad Hospital refused to move without endorsing his brother to take responsibility
  • Statement of Health to transfer the patient from British Hamad Hospital is real
  • Non-health follow-up "health" of the patient since his illness, otherwise why not Ieljoh before aggravation of his condition?
  • My brother talk about the injury of kidney failure is incorrect
  • We turned to a private hospital after doctors failed Hamad to remedy the situation
  • WHO urges doctors around the world to report any case
 Books - Ibrahim Badawi:
Confirmed brother patient Qatari infected with "Corona" new, and lying now at a hospital in Britain, that if his brother is stable and gradually improving, contrary to what appeared in the news agencies, and after that began to move his eyes two days ago, also receded pneumonia testimony doctors, pointing that the state sponsored treatment expenses.

He told the flag: The lung brother was inflamed and Off 90% upon arrival at the hospital, "غيز Land St. Thomas" British past 15 days, they are beginning to recover after being placed on a respirator, pointing out that despite the situation remains critical but doctors They stabilize the heartbeat and oxygen in the blood and despite the presence of some kidney infections, but they seem to be in better condition than in the beginning of the HIV infection.

He criticized what he described as the lack of transparency about the statement of the Supreme Council of Health announcing the transfer of the patient from Hamad Hospital, the British is the truth .. Stressing that the patient's family transferred him by helicopter Swiss at their own expense after Hamad Hospital's request for special equipment on board .. Stressing on the falsity of the statement on the follow-up of the Supreme Council of the patient for some time, but they treated him from the beginning by the worsening of the situation.

He stressed that the Supreme Council of Health did not know anything about the case of his brother only after the announcement of the news by the British Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization, and the Council was wrong in mentioning about the suffering of his brother from kidney failure two months ago
.. Pointing out that the flight details sick to his brother began after returning from Umrah week where began to feel shortness of breath and cough, flu and was transferred him to a hospital Hamad Medical doctors giving him some antibiotics after measuring pressure, diabetes and heart and told him it was fine and that the problem lies in the slight increase in cholesterol .
. Adding: not diagnostic well as continued suffering of my brother and we went by subsequently to a private hospital gave him an injection antibiotic severe called "Tstroyn" may have led to irritation virus strongly as resulted in a serious deterioration in his condition occurred narrow severe breathing we have quoted then to hospital Hamad again.

He continued: did not stay my brother Hospital Hamad only one night, the next day, we asked to move on our ambulance jumper for treatment in London and the hospital to communicate by helicopter from Dubai but they were not to have the necessary equipment to transport the patient was contacted by plane other Swiss by some friends and we are moving at our own expense and we have receipts to prove it.
He pointed out that immediately after the arrival of his brother to the hospital was put on a respirator to work on the rest lung, which suffered a lot during that period and two of his brothers to the hospital along with his sons accompany him now.

In a telephone conversation's flag with sister facilities to the patient in London, assured us that the state of his brother in a continuous improvement since 4 days, and pneumonia down the testimony of doctors who expressed optimism improved the situation, and they did not expect this development in light of the start of the patient to restore awareness The feeling of those around him.
He said: transfer my brother to London has the efforts of personal full, where Hamad Hospital refused to move claiming that it will not bear the travel only approved after it signed to approve moving on my own responsibility, has been ordered aircraft from Dubai, but they were not equipped and asked again through our personal relationship of Zurich, Switzerland, at our own expense.

On a reported injury brother acute kidney failure, he said that this is totally false and claims to prove securities official and vice versa, the case of his brother, significantly improved the testimony of doctors.
Dr. Mohammed Al-Hajri Director health protection and disease control transitional Supreme Council of Health said he was introduced patient dated September 8 intensive care in Hamad General Hospital before deteriorating condition were then sent the patient to London to undergo Vhsoat at the hands of the Committee of health protection (HBA) as supplied to him medical evacuation aircraft, while the World Health Organization declared the Qatari citizen diagnosed with a virus looks like severe acute respiratory syndrome "(SARS)," which he called "Corona" after returning from performing Umrah at the end of the last month of Ramadan.

In context, the World Health Organization urged yesterday in the medical field in various parts of the world to report any patient infected with severe respiratory and may have traveled to Saudi Arabia or Qatar and subjected to a new virus-like virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) ..
 The guidance Medical Health Organization for up to 194 member states that the medical personnel attention to anyone symptoms injury severe respiratory and possible rise in temperature accompanied by cough and require his treatment in the hospital and was in the area discovered the virus or been in contact with the case confirmed or suspected during the previous ten days.

The virus is defined as the coronary virus is linked to the roles the usual cold and belongs to the same family of virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which appeared in China in 2002 and infected 8,000 people worldwide and caused the death of 800 before control.
The link between the virus and Saudi Arabia to raise concern, especially with the near Hajj season where millions flock to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj .. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it had identified a group of laboratories that can provide experts in the coronal virus states that you need.

DOH readies 'SARS rooms' to deal with new SARS-type cases



September 27, 2012 7:33am

The Department of Health is preparing the "SARS Rooms" in government hospitals to treat patients infected by a new coronavirus similar to one that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

DOH National Epidemiology Center head Enrique Tayag said this Thursday even as he said they have not received any report of Filipinos being infected by the new virus.

"Na-maintain natin ang SARS Room sa DOH hospitals. Naglagay tayo ng mga room na ito nang tinamaan tayo noon ng SARS,"Tayag said in an interview on dzBB radio, when asked about initial measures should there be cases of the new infection in the Philippines.

He also said Philippine authorities remain on alert after the World Health Organization issued an alert on the matter.

In 2003, the Philippines was affected by the SARS scare that began in neighboring China.

SARS is a severe respiratory illness that is caused by a coronavirus (species Severe acute respiratory syndrome virus of the genus Coronavirus), is transmitted especially by contact with infectious material (as respiratory droplets or body fluids), and is characterized by fever, headache, body aches, a dry cough, hypoxia, and usually pneumonia.

A Reuters report said SARS appeared in China in 2002 and infected more than 8,000 people around the world, killing around 800 of them before being brought under control.

Also in the Thursday morning dzBB interview Tayag said airports have already started routine screening of incoming passengers.

"Kung may darating sa ating bansa na makitang anumang sakit bibigyan natin ng option na magpatingin sa DOH hospitals," he said.

Among the symptoms of the new infection are difficulty in breathing and kidney failure, which is the unique characteristic of the recent cases.

Because of this, Tayag advised Filipinos experiencing coughs and [general body] weakness to seek treatment at a hospital.

On the other hand, he reminded doctors and medical personnel at hospitals to practice hygiene by washing their hands.

"Sa hospital dapat maagap sa paghugas ng kamay. Maraming sinisipon at inuubo, mag-practice na tayo ng hygiene," he said.

Tayag also admitted there is little information about the disease at this time since there have only been three recorded cases of the newest infection so far.

"Hindi pa malinaw kasi tatlong kaso ang nare-report (We still don't have a very clear picture because there have so far been only three reported cases)," he said. http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/275788/news/nation/doh-readies-sars-rooms-to-deal-with-new-sars-type-cases

Philippines-Arriving passengers screened for corona virus



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Airport medical personnel on Thursday use a thermal scanner to monitor the arrival of passengers at the NAIA Centennial Airport for possible carriers of the corona virus

"Arab" reveals a letter from a doctor stating the beginning of "the mysterious virus Arabia"


Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 22:42
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Said Al Arabiya television, said the exchange of letters between a doctors in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and the World Association for Infectious Diseases revealed details virus mysterious kind of "crowns" which was announced a few days ago, noting that while the Ministry of Health Saudi assurances that the disease is not serious, However, the World Health Organization (WHO) today urged all medical workers to report any patient with severe infection of the respiratory system.
In one of the messages sent by a doctor from Saudi Arabia to the World Organization revealed story virus, which began its details in the city of Jeddah, after the arrival of one of the cases that have emerged implications influenza A private hospitals in the history of 10 Sept., and began one of the doctors if the patient, who was insixty years old, and was diagnosed as suffering from severe flu and kidney failure, have been isolated virus for analysis by a specialist doctors in Microbiology, to be the first result that this virus is a type of "crowns", and return the doctor to make sure these details through analysis virus lab specialist in the Netherlands.
The laboratory Dutch, that the virus is not types of flu A or B, but is mysterious virus from the family of "crowns", and to which he belongs virus SARS, which has killed 800 people in nearly 10 years, and seven days after almost Ministry of Health announced Arabia discovery This virus caused two deaths and injuring a third person, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued on the same day a global alert about this mysterious virus.
The Arab that the Ministry "health" Saudi Arabia currently monitoring this situation closely, especially with the approaching pilgrimage season, in addition to the World Health Organization urged all medical workers in various parts of the world to report any patient infected with severe respiratory may be had traveled to Saudi Arabia or Qatar.  http://www1.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=798221&SecID=65&IssueID=0

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Letter from the doctor reveals the beginning of "the mysterious virus Arabia"


Letter from the doctor reveals the beginning of "the mysterious virus Arabia"

Sent to the World Health Organization details Hospital first infected in Jeddah


Revealed an exchange of letters between a doctors in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and the World Association for Infectious Diseases details virus mysterious kind of "crowns" which was announced a few days ago.

 While the Ministry of Health Saudi assurances that the disease is not serious, but the World Health Organization urged today all workers in the medical field for reporting any patient infected with severe respiratory. 

At one of the messages sent by the doctor from Saudi Arabia to the World Organization revealed story virus that began in detail in the city of Jeddah, after the arrival of one of the cases that have emerged implications influenza A private hospitals in Date 10 September / current. doctors and began a case of a patient who was in the sixty years of age, and was diagnosed as suffering from severe flu and kidney failure.

7 Days between the discovery of the case disclosed

Been isolated virus for analysis by one of the doctors who specialize in microbiology, to be the first result that this virus is a type of "crowns", and return the doctor to make sure these details by analyzing the virus laboratory specialist in the Netherlands.

 confirmed laboratory Dutch that the virus is not types of flu A or B, but is mysterious virus from the family of "crowns", which belongs to the virus that causes SARS, which killed 800 people in nearly 10 years.
 after approximately seven days announced Saudi Ministry of Health for the discovery of this virus and causing two deaths and injuring a third person , to issue WHO on the same day an alert worldwide on this virus mysterious

monitors "health" Saudi Arabia is currently the situation closely, especially with the approach of the pilgrimage season, in addition to the World Health Organization urged all workers in the medical field in various parts of the world for reporting any patient infected with severe respiratory may have traveled to Saudi Arabia or Qatar. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/09/26/240368.html

Isolated patients do not have SARS-like virus


Isolated patients do not have SARS-like virus

Hospitalized take disease home from the trip, but it is not coronavirus.

"They admitted something wrong, they have been home from the warm countries, as we do not have here in Denmark. But it is not coronavirus, "said Dr. from Statens Serum Institut, Donald Fomsgaard to politiken.dk.
"We are over in any flu, we found out, after today we have investigated patient samples for 25 different viruses'.
Therefore, the five patients since yesterday have been admitted to Odense University, now quietly go home and recuperate.

The same applies to the patient who is admitted to Hvidovre Hospital with the same symptoms as the five from Odense. The person are still waiting for that one at Statens Serum Institut find out what he or she fails.
However, it is ruled out in the case of coronavirus, says Anders Fomsgaard solid. He expects to have an answer ready for the patient within half an hour. http://politiken.dk/indland/ECE1764936/isolerede-patienter-har-ikke-sars-lignende-virus/?

Hvidovre Hospital is not infected with coronavirus


Patients have not feared virus

Wednesday on 26th September 2012 kl. 16:0by Marie Joo Kim Jensen, mkij@tv2.dk for TV 2 Newsopd. on 26/9 2012, 16:35)
The five patients who yesterday was admitted to Odense University Hospital with symptoms of a new virus that has not been affected by the coronavirus, the state consultant at Department of Infectious Diseases at the University Hospital Svend Stensvang to tv2.dk.
"They have all five influenza B and it fits completely fine with the clinical picture they had. One expects namely the corona virus is much more visible," he says.
Neither patient at Hvidovre Hospital is infected with coronavirus. Also in this case it was about an ordinary flu, says consultant at Statens Serum Institut, Thyra Krause to tv2.dk.
Svend Stensvang says that the virus may be impoteret, one of the five hospitalized have been in Qatar and has been in Saudi Arabia. The remaining three people have been infected by the first two after returning home.
"Influenza B is like an ordinary flu, you become infected by breathing., There is no activity with influenza B in Denmark or in Europe at the moment. Influenza B typically occurs in February or March," says Svend Stensvang.
He also says that the five patients now have it so well that they can be printed.
"You have to stay home if you are ill, but the five patients are in remission and does not constitute any risk of infection," says Svend Stensvang.
Health Protection Agency warned the start of the week that the Danes should contact their physician if they have recently been in Qatar or Saudi Arabia and subsequently have flu-like symptoms, coughing, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.  http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-57622572:patienter-har-ikke-frygtet-virus.html?forside

the five have so-called influenza B

http://www.sn.dk/Fem-personer-frikendt-for-sars-agtig-virus/Danmark/artikel/226968

Five patients not infected with corona virus


The five persons admitted for observation for corona virus at Odense University Hospital (University Hospital), can breathe a sigh of relief.
They are not infected with corona virus, but ordinary flu. This was stated by Chief Physician at University Hospital, Svend Stensvang-Pedersen, to ABC News.
The five patients - a family of four and one more person - was yesterday admitted for observation yesterday because they had synptomer the corona virus. They have now all been informed that they are not infected.

Five patients not infected with corona virus


Five patients not infected with corona virus

The five persons admitted for observation for corona virus at Odense University Hospital can breathe a sigh of relief.
They are not infected with the virus. This was stated by Chief Physician at University Hospital Svend Stensvang-Pedersen to BBC News.  http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2012/09/26/154213.htm

the CDC is aaaaful quiet..


 the CDC is aaaaful quiet..
 http://www.cdc.gov/media/archives.htm
 http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/
 https://twitter.com/CDCgov/with_replies

Virus on OUH?: Staff in armor

According to Svend Stensvang Pedersen, a senior consultant at the Department of Infectious Diseases, the family is isolated on a two-bed room - the kids do not take up so much, explains consultant - and the fifth patient is in a different room.  http://www.fyens.dk/article/2163234:Indland-Fyn--Virus-paa-OUH---Personalet-i-beskyttelsesdragter