France - 1st confirmed case of nCoV coronavirus travel history from UAE - 4 suspected cases - 3 tested negative - additional tests needed for roommate

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Two people in France ill after contact with coronavirus victim

LILLE, France| Thu May 9, 2013 5:15pm EDT

LILLE, France(Reuters) - Two people who had contact with a Frenchman who is seriously ill with the new SARS-like coronavirus have fallen sick and been admitted to hospital, health officials in northern France said on Thursday.

One is a patient who shared a ward with the 65-year-old man infected with the virus when he was in a hospital in the town of Valenciennes, northern France, at the end of April, and the other is a doctor who treated him there.

The 65-year-old carrier, who fell ill on his return from a trip to Dubai, has since been transferred to an isolated intensive care wing in a hospital in Douai, near the northern city of Lille, where he is in a critical condition.

The ARS local health authority said the two other men were in individual rooms in separate hospitals, one in Lille and the other in the nearby town of Tourcoing, and that tests had been carried out on both of them.

"They show symptoms which require a special infectious diseases consultation," the ARS said in a statement. "The results of the tests carried out on these two people will be known soon and will be made public."

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Hospital reports 3rd suspect of NCoV Coronavirus

A third suspect case is reported in France: a nurse from the Douai hospital.

Coronavirus : un troisi?me cas suspect rep?r? dans le Nord

10-05-2013

Un troisi?me cas de coronavirus est suspect? dans le Nord apr?s la contamination confirm?e d'un homme de 65 qui avait s?journ? ? Duba?, a annonc? l'Agence r?gionale pour la sant?. "Nous avons une troisi?me suspicion ce matin, avec une infirmi?re de Douai", a d?clar? jeudi 10 mai le docteur Sandrine Segovia Kueny, directrice g?n?rale adjointe de l'ARS, sur France Bleu Nord.

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Coronavirus: a hundred people under "surveillance"
Coronavirus: a hundred people have been in contact with the patient

Between Valenciennes and Douai, a place where the patient was hospitalized by the coronavirus, a hundred people are currently under "surveillance". If symptoms such as abnormal cough or fever occur, they will be placed in isolation for analysis. Currently, there are three suspects but are still not proven. A doctor of Valenciennes, a former roommate of Valenciennes and Douai nurse. These suspects are currently hospitalized and Tourcoing respectively for the doctor, and Lille former roommate and nurse Douai . Their health is not a concern.
They are just waiting for test results. At 18:00, a press conference is scheduled for Regional Health Agency. The schedule was chosen in order to indicate whether the three suspects are known or not. The analysis results will then be known.
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Coronavirus suspected cases hospitalized in France

The Associated Press
Posted: May 10, 2013 10:23 AM ET
Last Updated: May 10, 2013 10:22 AM ET

French health officials said Friday they are investigating three suspected cases of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS, in people who had close contact in the hospital with France's only confirmed case.

Beatrice Degrugillers, a spokeswoman for the regional health agency in France's Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, said a nurse at the hospital where the man was hospitalized in late April has herself been under watch at the hospital in Douai since Thursday night.

A doctor and a former hospital roommate who had each been in contact with the first patient also remain hospitalized. Test results are expected later Friday.

If confirmed, the additional cases would heighten concerns about the virus' ability to spread easily between people. Health authorities have previously said the new coronavirus has spread in limited circumstances between people in very close contact, such as relatives taking care of family members.
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Coronavirus: three suspected cases in the North

Keywords: SARS Coronavirus outbreak
By Pauline Fr?our - the 10/05/2013

GRAPHICS - Three people who have been in contact with the French first patient with the new virus similar to SARS may have been infected. The test results should be available Saturday morning.

Is the new coronavirus nCoV gaining ground in France? The answer should be known Saturday morning.

Friday, a third suspect was found among those who have been in contact with the first French patient whit near the SARS virus. Regional Health Agency (ARS) of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais announced a nurse at the hospital in Douai, where the patient was between April 29 and May 8, presented with fever and symptoms respiratory justifying examinations. The day before, a doctor and a patient at the hospital in Valenciennes, the first institution that received the patient turned out, were also considered potentially contaminated. ARS will communicate the results of analyzes.

For now, the only confirmed case is a 65 year old man who stayed in Dubai from April 9 to 17. The first human cases were reported in 2012 in Saudi Arabia, a country bordering the United Arab Emirates. The patient already suffering from a chronic disease, was first hospitalized on April 23 at a hospital in Valenciennes for digestive disorders. He was then transferred on April 29 in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Douai, which appeared respiratory disorders causing its isolation May 2, then at the University Hospital of Lille in the night from Wednesday to Thursday when his condition required extra-corporeal support only the regional center could provide. Placed in an isolation room, he was Friday in a "serious but stable condition," according to the ARS.

People under surveillance are a physician from Valenciennes hospital , aged 35, the roommate of the patient in this institution, a man in his fifty's, and a nurse from the Douai hospital . These three patients present relatively mild respiratory symptoms and, in the absence of effective treatment, have not received specific drugs. But given the possibility of transmission of the virus between humans, they were placed in solitary confinement - the doctor, to the Infectious Diseases Hospital for medical service Tourcoing and Lille University Hospital for another patient and nurse.

Followed "hourly"

The coronavirus is manifested by acute respiratory infection causing fever, cough, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing. Some infected patients also developed acute renal failure and other organ damage pericarditis type indicates the Ministry of Health.

In total, about one hundred people who have been in contact with the sick northerner were identified by the French health authorities, who follow them "hour by hour," according to deputy director of the ARS Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Sandrine Segovia-Kueny. The incubation period is estimated to be ten days, but the information about this virus in the world remain highly fragmented. According to the Institute of Health, human to human transmission of infection is very likely but this mode of contamination was "not important." It is also impossible to say at present whether mortality will remain above 50%, as reveal the 18 deaths in 33 cases currently recorded in the world. SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), which is a variant nCoV had caused ten years nearly 800 deaths are in the world.

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May 11, 2013

Novel coronavirus: Marisol Touraine will travel to Lille University Hospital, Saturday, May 11, 2013

The first case of new coronavirus (NCoV) in France was confirmed on 7 May 2013. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has immediately initiated an epidemiological investigation to identify all persons who had contact with the patient. Research has been conducted with his entourage and within hospital where he stayed (hospitals Douai and Valenciennes).

Among the one hundred and twenty persons identified three and a fourth in the 10th of May had symptoms that led to virological sampling and placing them under observation in isolation, Infectious Diseases Service.

For three people, negative results have been confirmed by the national reference center of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. These people will benefit in the coming days, of monitoring appropriate to their clinical condition. For one person, additional tests are needed. This is the person who shared the room from the 27 to 29 April with the first patient with a coronavirus infection, at the CH Valenciennes. This person is currently hospitalized and isolated in the operation Infectious Diseases at the University Hospital of Lille.

Health authorities recall the importance of reporting to an attending physician or center 15, while suggestive symptom (cough, respiratory disorders, fever) in the following of trip to the Near or Middle East days.
Protocol support defined by the High Council of Public Health has been widely disseminated to professionals and health care facilities.

The hotline information to the general public 0800 13 00 00 is available Monday to Saturday from 9h to 19h.

Marisol Touraine, Minister of Social Affairs and Health, will visit the University Hospital of Lille this Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 10 am. The visit will be followed by a press briefing.

Due to the smallness of the place, the visit will be followed by a limited number of journalists.

Information and accreditations:

Office of Marisol Touraine: 01 40 56 60 65 or cab-ass-presse@sante.gouv.fr

See the press release dated May 8, 2013

http://www.social-sante.gouv.fr/actu...sol,15819.html