2013-03-29 19:19:28
Ten years ago, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) swept Hong Kong, and then spread to the world. "Infectious Diseases" published a recent study found that a new coronavirus SARS virus can infect human tissue types, quickly caused the death of these organizations. Sectors in Hong Kong to take preventive measures to protect against the new virus strikes.
Medical experts stressed that they do not know whether this new virus can produce the same as with the SARS virus, the ability to spread between people.The World Health Organization (WHO), this cautious attitude.
According to the New York Times reported, the World Health Organization announced in the 26th and, so far, 17 people have been infected by this new virus called coronavirus 11 people were killed, including a British man, he went to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan Travel sick.
The World Health Organization requires member governments to report all new cases, but has not been urged to take any special measures. The organization said, "WHO does not recommend a special screening at ports of entry for this event is not recommended to take any travel or trade restrictions."
Although there has so far been in East Asia has not one is diagnosed infected people, Hong Kong has started to take preventive measures. The Hong Kong government has begun to notice and training hospitals, clinics and staff at the airport, to identify possible cases. Expand the range of medical research.
Senior officials of the SAR Government in a large-scale exercise was held on the 27th, simulation if an infected person to arrive at the airport, the spread of this new virus in Hong Kong, the government will be how to manage for the isolation and treatment of patients and staff. Hong Kong Department of Health said, to remain vigilant and continue to cooperate closely with the WHO and other health agencies overseas, to monitor the latest developments of new infectious diseases.
Head of the Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, Yuen Kwok-yung (Yuen Kwok-yung), said, "At the moment, for obvious historical reasons, I think that the Hong Kong government to adopt the most stringent border controls against this new virus may become."
Yuen Kwok-yung their Hong Kong colleagues, discovered in 2003, played a key role in the SARS virus and its genetic similarity be traced back to an infection of the virus in wild bat research.
Now, researchers at the University of Hong Kong in the Middle East, said more and more worried about this new virus. This virus, like SARS is a coronavirus.The virus is named novel coronavirus EMC.
One of the discoverers of the SARS virus, the director of the Research Center of the University of Hong Kong influenza, Peiris (Malik Peiris) 26, warned, SARS virus in the world infected with 8445 people, of which 790 people were killed, although the virus disappeared a year later, but In the past two centuries, the other two coronavirus from animals spread transferred to spread in the human body has become endemic infectious diseases. Everyone is very worried about this new virus, because it seems to be more deadly, has caused the death of more than half of the patients in the confirmed cases.
The new virus can infect cells from a variety of animals, including monkeys, rabbits and pigs. This makes the new virus more opportunities to evolve greater infectious.
For 16 years, the H5N1 avian influenza virus occasionally spread from birds to humans and leads to death, but it has not evolved the ability to spread between people continued sporadic. However, SARS virus after some sporadic infection in southern China in late 2002, only months seems to have evolved the ability to spread from person to person.
Yuen Kwok-yung said, As for this new virus, "we face may be the case in 2002, that would be very, very bad, but it might be a situation similar to the H5N1."
