China isolates newly identified Virus in child

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=2><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>China isolates newly-identified Boca Virus in child

By: Reuters

Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:23 AM ET


BEIJING (Reuters) - "Chinese scientists have diagnosed a child suffering from respiratory illness as being infected with the human bocavirus, which was only identified last year, an official newspaper reported on Monday.

The child, from Chenzhou in the central Chinese province of Hunan, had been admitted to hospital with a severe respiratory infection, the Guangming Daily said.

DNA tests then confirmed the child had contracted the virus, the newspaper said. It did not give other details about the case.

Last August, Swedish researchers said they had identified a previously unknown virus that may cause many cases of serious respiratory infections in children.

They named the virus human bocavirus and suggested researchers start a systematic search for all the viruses that cause respiratory infections.

The report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, underlined how little doctors know about the sources of most respiratory infections."

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"Swedish researchers say they have identified a virus that may cause many of the respiratory infections in children. They're naming it human boca virus. Respiratory infections are a living cause of hospital visits among infants and children. The scientists say in 12 percent to 39 percent of cases, the cause of the infection is never identified. "

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Human Bocavirus,

?Comment Info on this new respiratory virus: Human Bocavirus, PNAS Article 23 August 2005 The technology was applied to pooled human respiratory tract samples.

The first experiments detected seven human virus species without the use of any specific reagent. Among the detected viruses were one coronavirus (SARS) and one parvovirus, both of which were at that time uncharacterized. The parvovirus, provisionally named human bocavirus, was in a retrospective clinical study detected in 17 additional patients and associated with lower respiratory tract infections in children."

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/102/36/12891


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One in three deaths unreported by Chinese hospitals: survey

Beijing, Aug 16: "About one third of deaths occurring in Chinese hospitals are not reported to health authorities, a survey by the Ministry of Health has revealed, indicating poor management.

Even though Chinese medical institutes above county level have been required to report deaths since April 2004 about 20 per cent of hospitals still have no direct death reporting network, according to the survey carried out last November and December in 130 above-county-level medical institutes throughout the country.

It also found that more than 70 per cent of death reports were delayed getting to health authorities."

The survey revealed poor management and supervision in the current direct reporting system, Xinhua news agency quoted the ministry as saying."

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