Spain - Woman, 61, tests positive for coronavirus - treated for pneumonia in recent visit to Saudi Arabia - November 6, 2013

[Treyfish]

MADRID, 6 Nov (IRIN) - The Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has reported the detection of the first imported case in Spain with positive laboratory results for human infection similar to the new coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which caused more than one hundred infections in the Middle East.
This is a woman living in Spain, born in Morocco, who had traveled to Saudi Arabia and is admitted to the Hospital Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda (Madrid), where they say that "we have taken all the measures on the case" as well as possible contacts as operating procedures agreed between the Ministry and communities.
The patient, who was admitted on November 1, remains in a favorable and stable, but the samples analyzed in the National Microbiology Center have tested positive to the new coronavirus infection.
Both the Ministry and the Community of Madrid are proceeding to identify all close contacts of the patient, as recommended in the procedures agreed at national and international level.
However, he insists, "an imported case in which all these measures have been established, no risk to public health in Spain"...http://translate.google.com/translat...106175703.html hattip Helen Branswell

[Treyfish]

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Press Releases

Detected an imported case of the new coronavirus in Spain

• The patient had traveled to Saudi Arabia
• The patient, who remained during the month of October in Saudi Arabia, is located in a favorable position and stable
• The case does not pose a risk to public health in Spain
• Health authorities have followed national and international procedures for dealing with this case

November 6, 2013.'s Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has reported the detection of an imported case in Spain with positive laboratory results for human infection with the new coronavirus.
This is a woman living in Spain, born in Morocco, who had traveled to Saudi Arabia and is admitted to the Hospital Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda (Madrid), where they have taken all over the case, and on possible contacts as operating procedures agreed between the Ministry and the autonomous.
The patient, who was admitted on November 1, remains in a favorable and stable. The samples analyzed in the National Microbiology Center have tested positive to the new coronavirus infection.
The Ministry and the Community of Madrid are proceeding to identify all close contacts of the patient, as recommended in the procedures agreed at national and international level.
An imported case in which all these measures have been established, no risk to public health in Spain.
Following the provisions of the International Health Regulations, the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has notified the World Health Organization and the European rapid alert network (EWRS), with which it maintains close monitoring of the situation, together with the Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid.
NEW CORONAVIRUS
The Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus Middle East was identified in 2012 in Saudi Arabia. Most people affected by this respiratory virus acute respiratory disease presents with fever, cough and difficulty breathing.
To date there have been reported 150 confirmed cases, 125 of them in Saudi Arabia. All cases have been reported in five countries in the Middle East (Saudi, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman). In Europe there have been cases, all imported from this area, in four countries: United Kingdom (two cases), Germany (two cases), France (one case) and Italy (one case).
For more information about the coronavirus please consult the website of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. http://www.msssi.gob.es/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/alertasActual/corVir.htm .http://translate.google.com/translat...40%26bih%3D436

[Treyfish]

Re: First case in Spain of the new coronavirus

Detected a case of the new coronavirus in Spain

• The patient, who remained during the month of October in Saudi Arabia, is stable
• According to the Ministry of Health, 'no risk to public health in Spain'
• To date 63 deaths have been reported and 150 cases confirmed
• United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, other European countries with cases

<footer><address> THE WORLD Madrid
</address><time datetime="2013-11-06"> Updated: 11/06/2013 20:57 pm </time></footer> The Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has reported the detection of an imported case in Spain with laboratory evidence for human infection with the novel coronavirus. A pathogen of the same family as the SARS virus that generated 10 years ago 8,000 infections and 700 deaths.
The new affected woman is a resident of Spain, born in Morocco, who had traveled to Saudi Arabia and is admitted to the Hospital Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda (Madrid), where they have taken all over the case, well as possible contacts as operating procedures agreed between the Ministry and the autonomous.
According to the director explained how the Coordinating Center and Emergency Health Alerts, Fernando Sim&#243;n, it is "a woman of 61 years who was in Saudi Arabia between October 2 and November 1" and "initiated a respiratory symptoms with fever and cough on October 15, "according to Efe.
After that, "the 28 and October 20 began a process in which he was diagnosed with pneumonia in a hospital in Saudi Arabia." Later, Simon explained that she "traveled back to Spain on November 1 and was diagnosed back in Puerta de Hierro".
At present, the patient has a "developing pneumonia with severe respiratory problem", while in "stable condition and evolving favorably"...http://translate.google.com/translat...01d8b458f.html

[Giuseppe]

Re: First case in Spain of the new coronavirus

The 'developing pneumonia' is a translation artifact: it must be read as [the patient is presenting a] ''clinical diagnosis / picture of pneumonia''

[Treyfish]

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hattip Branswell
...The Spanish Ministry of Health said the woman was admitted to hospital in Madrid on Nov. 1 and is in stable condition. In its press release, the ministry said it is following up with people who were in contact with her to determine if others have contracted the sickness.
That will likely involve tracking people who travelled on the same plane or planes with the ill woman, who journeyed back to Spain from Saudi Arabia shortly before being hospitalized.
The woman was already experiencing signs of her illness before she left the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a World Health Organization expert said Wednesday.
?She became symptomatic while she was in KSA,? said Dr. Anthony Mounts, the WHO?s point person for the new virus, a cousin of the coronavirus that caused the 2003 SARS outbreak.
?We understand that she did perform the Hajj and came back and was admitted to hospital in Spain and was tested there.?
Mounts did not know if the woman flew on a commercial airline or on one of the charter flights used by many who travel to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, http://metronews.ca/news/world/84672...-went-to-hajj/

[sharon sanders]

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from a columnist at Al-Watan in Saudi Arabia. Apparently turning into a rant.

Machine translation



*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 1m
Enough evidence on the transparency # _ Health Ministry statements resonant gap in the pilgrimage of # _ Corona virus non- scientific and illogical to be debunked now on the heads of publicly
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 12m
Did not pass the maximum known incubation period for # _ Corona virus and cases that have been exported from the UK in the growing
# _ Health Ministry
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 11m
What is the position of # _ Health Ministry of the Moroccan case you need that has been diagnosed in Spain b # _ Corona virus with the knowledge that their symptoms began in the Kingdom
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 9m
And not just the symptoms , but was diagnosed and treated in the Kingdom by # _ Ministry of Health as a case of pneumonia undiagnosed # 's the virus _ Coruna to travel with thousands
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 7m
Spain up and diagnosed there ! Who bears the reckless # _ Department of Health and exposed people to the risk and cost of survey contacts of the passengers from the Kingdom of Spain ! # Coruna
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 4m
This is the focus of # Jubail , which killed three people during the week ... When you wake up # _ Ministry of Health of deep slumber and remove the curtain on the current situation ?
# _ Corona virus
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[sharon sanders]

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more ranting.....

nmalamro 3m
Is one of two things: either the # _ Department of Health examined the need for and the results were positive and hid from the world and subjected them to danger selfishly, or they did not examine them from the ground up!
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 5m
Condition to the need of developed symptoms during the Hajj was diagnosed and treatment in the Kingdom! Up to Spain a #'s positive _ Corona virus
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Nurah Alamro @ Nmalamro 6m
And examined her way where there seems to be a fundamental defect in the survey # _ Corona virus in the Hajj and this is the first outcome, God shogun drawback Kingdom lie before the world! # Coruna
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Nurah Alamro @ Nmalamro 8m
Must not be issued # _ Health Ministry statement on what has been done of the diagnosis and treatment of the need for which has been diagnosed b # _ Corona virus in # Spain and to send them samples
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[sharon sanders]

Re: Spain - Woman, 61, tests positive for coronavirus - treated for pneumonia in recent visit to Saudi Arabia - November 6, 2013

Also please see:

Saudi Arabia - Health department denies doctor and child with coronavirus in Jubail cluster, Eastern province - November 2, 2013

[sharon sanders]

Re: Spain - Woman, 61, tests positive for coronavirus - treated for pneumonia in recent visit to Saudi Arabia - November 6, 2013

hat tip Lisa Schnirring


CIDRAP News
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Nov 07, 2013

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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today in an updated risk assessment that the 61-year-old woman with no known underlying health conditions was in Saudi Arabia from Oct 2 to Nov 1. She visited Medina, then Mecca and had no known contact with animals.

Her symptoms began Oct 15 with cough and fever, and she was seen at a hospital emergency department of a Mecca hospital on Oct 28 and 29, where health workers diagnosed her as having pneumonia, based on chest x-ray findings.

Spain's health ministry told CIDRAP News that it has relayed more details about the case to European health authorities, including that the woman refused to be hospitalized in Saudi Arabia and was hospitalized in Madrid on Nov 1 when she arrived back in Spain.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/11/spanish-mers-case-triggers-flight-contact-tracing

[sharon sanders]

Re: Spain - Woman, 61, tests positive for coronavirus - treated for pneumonia in recent visit to Saudi Arabia - November 6, 2013

So in a novel coronavirus outbreak, in a pilgrimage city, during the Hajj, the Saudis let a confirmed pneumonia patient out into the crowds and international airports.

Not really great public health.

[Giuseppe]

Re: Spain - Woman, 61, tests positive for coronavirus - treated for pneumonia in recent visit to Saudi Arabia - November 6, 2013

If really interested in preserving public health some national and international health agencies should have taken more stringent measures. But at the end, the risk of a wider dissemination of the virus has been ruled as minor with respect the economic burden.

For more info about Risk Assessment for the Spanish imported case, see also the ECDC report: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=213393

[sharon sanders]

Re: Spain - Woman, 61, tests positive for coronavirus - treated for pneumonia in recent visit to Saudi Arabia - November 6, 2013

And those were the women-to-drive protests days. The government of Saudi Arabia promised to have all available police agencies out on the street enforcing the law to arrest women that drove and the men who supported them.

Priorities.

[sharon sanders]

Re: Spain - Woman, 61, tests positive for coronavirus - treated for pneumonia in recent visit to Saudi Arabia - November 6, 2013

more today...


nmalamro 20m
Did not issue # _ Ministry of Health of any statement until the moment of the need for which was hit b # _ Corona virus in the Kingdom have been diagnosed B # Spain
http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publication...ember-2013.pdf ...
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 19m
Having traveled from Jeddah Airport to Madrid on November 1 and had been diagnosed # _ Health Ministry pneumonia in the Kingdom undiagnosed # 's the Corona virus _
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 17m
Did the # _ Health Ministry wipe the contacts of the crews healthy and Jeddah airport staff and even passengers or do you wait for the European Centre for Disease Control that the duty ? !
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 16m
Important as long as the # _ Health Ministry experiencing designed and Samson same dead , flights to Jeddah from Madrid November 1 , passengers and employees if one hospital Taban GO
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 12m
When the health of # _ Health Ministry of sleep and decided to respect the citizens and issued a statement regarding the need and how to leave it travels a positive for # _ Corona virus which on any flight
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 8m
Lin issued # _ Health Ministry statement: November 1, Jeddah - Madrid , no one is showing symptoms of # _ Corona virus Arouh to the nearest hospital and God saves everyone
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*Nurah Alamro @ nmalamro 6m
For information , symptoms may appear two weeks later of November 1 , because of the long incubation period for the virus # _ Coruna
# Spain
# Jeddah , Madrid
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[tetano]

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Favorably Changing the infected woman in Spain by the new coronavirus

The first woman infected in Spain with the new coronavirus evolves favorably, as confirmed on Friday the CEO of primary attention of the community of Madrid, Antonio Alemany.En right now and waiting to finish with the epidemiological study, affected women, which still admitted in Hospital door in the iron of Madrid, remains the only case reported in the country.' we are currently looking for people that may have contact to pass through a protocol agreed with the Ministry of health and that derived from the World Health Organization ', reported by responsible care Primaria.Estamos for looking for people that may have contact' Alemany recalled, likewise, that does nothing to think in a situation of alarm for society and stressed that the ability of good virus is low, so that, although it has been in contact with him, the contagion is not safe.

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1971500/0/evoluciona-favorablemente/mujer-infectada/nuevo-coronavirus/