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Sunday, February 24, 2013

WHO: new cases of infection confirmed in United Kingdom koronavirus

Geneva (Reuters)-the United Kingdom has confirmed to the World Health Organization (WHO) concerning one case of infection of a new virus from the same family in a patient with SARS, bringing the total confirmed cases so 10, says the WHO, Friday (11/2).

These patients, United Kingdom citizens who recently traveled to the Middle East and Pakistan, received intensive care at a hospital in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Cases of transmission of the new virus is most recently known as the koronavirus make the number of confirmed cases globally so 10, five of them died.

"The new Case does demonstrate that the virus continues to spread," the WHO said, Xinhua reported. "The WHO is urging all Member States to continue to conduct surveillance for respiratory tract infections very acute (of SARS) and carefully examine each patient with unusual symptoms."

The world body is suggested all countries to examine anyone who is suffering from pneumonia, which could not be explained to check the possibility of transmission of the virus.

The WHO declared the end of a palign infection "sporadic cases" and does not change the assessment of the risk.

Koronavirus are a family of viruses that include a variety of viruses that cause fever and SARS.

SARS emerged in China in 2002 and killed as many as a tenth of the 8,000 patients who attack around the world.

The symptoms of the disease include respiratory tract sakita, fever, and breathing difficulties.

The WHO said the new patients stricken with some symptoms on 26 January. A series of laboratory examination of respiratory specimens showed these patients had been ill with swine flu and H1N1 Novel SARS-causing Coronavirus infection (NCoV), which confirmed, Reuters said.

NCoV identified when the WHO issued a warning to international alert in September 2012 and declare a virus previously unknown in humans has struck a man who not long ago Qatar had paid a visit to Saudi Arabia.

United Kingdom Health Protection Agency (HPA) said among the 10 laboratory confirmed cases, five have been to Saudi Arabia, three died; two in Jordan, where the two patients died; and one in Germany in patients from Qatar which has since been allowed home from medical treatment center.

But on Monday the WHO back State at this stage does not need to be issued travel restrictions or trade, or any specific examination at border posts. (C003)



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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Polio outbreak in China confirmed

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20 September 2011 Last updated at 21:30 GMT A toddler receives a polio vaccine. File photo Polio is highly infectious and affects the nervous system, sometimes resulting in paralysis Polio has spread to China for the first time since 1999 after being imported from Pakistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed.

It said a strain of polio (WPV1) found in China was genetically linked with the type now circulating in Pakistan.

At least seven cases have now been confirmed in China's western Xinjiang province, which borders Pakistan.

The WHO warned there was a high risk of the crippling virus spreading further during Muslim pilgrimages to Mecca.

Polio (also called poliomyelitis) is highly infectious and affects the nervous system, sometimes resulting in paralysis.

It is transmitted through contaminated food, drinking water and faeces.

'Right things done'

On Tuesday, the WHO said the polio cases in Xinjiang had been detected in the past two months.

The Chinese authorities are now investigating the cases, and a mass vaccination campaign has been launched in the region.

"So far all the right things are being done," WHO spokesman Oliver Rosenbauer told Reuters news agency.

Polio was last brought into China from India in 1999. China's last indigenous case was in 1994.

Pakistan is one of a handful of countries where polio remains endemic.

WHO officials had been warning for some time that the virus was spreading within the country to previously uninfected areas.

The UN's children fund, Unicef, has said that eradicating polio from Pakistan depends on delivering oral vaccines to each and every child, including the most vulnerable and the hardest to reach.

Polio was virtually eliminated from the Western hemisphere in the 20th Century.



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