Dangerous new respiratory disease: Doctors treat patients with coronavirus, without knowing it

A dangerous respiratory illness SARS resembles alerted physicians. Now the new coronavirus was first detected in a patient in Germany. From the findings, the doctors found out only after the treatment of the man.
For the first time doctors have detected in a patient treated in Germany, the dangerous new coronavirus. The man came in October, first to a hospital in the oil state of Qatar, but was postponed due to severe respiratory symptoms to a specialist chest clinic after North Rhine-Westphalia, such as the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), announced on Friday in Berlin.

The attending physicians were unaware that they were dealing with a coronavirus-infected. Samples of the patients were on RKI information initially sent to the UK. The resident's Health Protection Agency, the RKI had informed only on Thursday on proof of coronaviruses. Since the patient from Qatar had already been discharged from hospital in England because his health had improved.

Staff is now being investigated
The RKI has indicated that as yet no knowledge of disease symptoms with the physicians and nurses of the hospital. Investigations were yet initiated.

When the man from Qatar is the world's sixth known infection with the novel coronavirus. Two of those infected died. The new virus is related to the SARS virus, which is also among the coronaviruses, and ten years ago enabled the world in terror. The World Health Organization, 8000 cases registered at that time, 800 people died of SARS.

Risk of infection to be low
More attentive responded known, the research community, as this September, two infections with a new coronavirus (HCoV-EMC). A 60-year-old from Saudi Arabia died in June, a 49-year-old from Qatar infected early in September. Later, three more cases in Saudi Arabia were known. A striking feature of most patients is a severe respiratory distress syndrome with simultaneous acute renal failure.

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