Munich: Man dies after coronavirus infection

Again, a patient died from the dangerous coronavirus. In a Munich hospital the 73-year-old succumbed to the infection with the novel virus. He had been flown for treatment in Abu Dhabi - but suffered already at a pre-existing condition. Doctors puzzled further how the virus from spreading.

Munich - The novel coronavirus that was discovered a few months ago for the first time, has claimed another casualty: Now is a man succumbed in a Munich hospital infection with dangerous pathogens. As the urban Krankhenhaus announced , the 73-year-old died of a circulatory shock in the early hours of Tuesday.

However, the patient had already suffered from severe pre-existing conditions, said the Hospital Munich Schwabing. Due to the advanced stage infection is the prognosis was very unfavorable, said the head of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Clemens Wendtner. The man comes therefore from the United Arab Emirates, where he still lives.According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the patient was on 19March was moved from a hospital in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to Germany. On 23 March a laboratory confirmed the suspicion of an infection with a novel coronavirus. It is a SARS-like virus, which bears the acronym HCoV-EMC.

The Munich-based patient information had been brought to the hospital immediately after his arrival in an isolation room in the ICU. Contact persons and relatives of the man would continue to advise and medically monitored. For the population no risk of infection had passed.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) worldwide have been 17 cases infected with this pathogen proven. Nine patients have died.Almost all of the 17 patients coronavirus originated far from the Arab world, were in most cases so far in Saudi Arabia. In Germany, it is after the second clinic details become known infection. In both cases, the patients came from abroad. Except for the patients in Munich late 2012 was a patient from Qatar treated in a hospital in Essen , where the infection succumbed.

So far, the doctors do not know how the new virus is transmitted to humans. They assumed, however, that under certain circumstances could be held even an infection from person to person . The doctors at least initiated from the case of a recently deceased man from the UK. The risk to the general population is very low, the experts stress. Even the RKI classifies the risk of disease in Germany is low.

Applies in the care of probable cases in the hospital however, carry out strict hygiene measures as recommended for diseases caused by the Sars virus, it is called by the RKI .

The disease starts with flu-like symptoms such as fever and chills. Quickly the symptoms are worse, however: Most infected patients have a severe respiratory distress syndrome, similar to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A great danger especially as acute renal failure occur simultaneously. The new virus was first appeared last year in the middle of the Middle East.  http://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/diagnose/muenchen-mann-stirbt-nach-coronavirus-infektion-a-891012.html