This reply #185 ( below ) about foxnews was in response to post #179, the one about the Easter e.o.
Reply #185 was NOT to #184, the post about the Italian arrests.
Please forgive the mixup :0
#185 “WildHighlander57 wrote:
The foxnews article on this was published march/April of last year.
More coronavirus, now spreading to France:
NOVEL CORONAVIRUS - EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (22): FRANCE, SUSPECTED,
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
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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 [9 May
2013].
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 [2013], 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 2 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 2 people will be known soon and will be made
public.”
As France reported the 65-year-old as its 1st case of the coronavirus
on Wednesday [8 May 2013], the World Health Organization said it would
send experts to visit a Saudi hospital from which the virus has
spread, killing 7 people so far.
The French case brought the total number of known infections worldwide
to 31, of which 18 resulted in death.
Coronavirus is from the same viral family that triggered the outbreak
of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that swept the world from
Asia in late 2003, killing 775 people.
Despite there being no evidence so far of sustained human-to-human
transmission, health experts’ concerns are growing over clusters of
new cases.
[Byline: Pierre Savary, Catherine Bremer, Michael Roddy]
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