Patients have not feared virus
Wednesday on 26th September 2012 kl. 16:04 by Marie Joo Kim Jensen, mkij@tv2.dk for TV 2 News( opd. on 26/9 2012, 16:35)
The five patients who yesterday was admitted to Odense University Hospital with symptoms of a new virus that has not been affected by the coronavirus, the state consultant at Department of Infectious Diseases at the University Hospital Svend Stensvang to tv2.dk.
"They have all five influenza B and it fits completely fine with the clinical picture they had. One expects namely the corona virus is much more visible," he says.
Neither patient at Hvidovre Hospital is infected with coronavirus. Also in this case it was about an ordinary flu, says consultant at Statens Serum Institut, Thyra Krause to tv2.dk.
Svend Stensvang says that the virus may be impoteret, one of the five hospitalized have been in Qatar and has been in Saudi Arabia. The remaining three people have been infected by the first two after returning home.
"Influenza B is like an ordinary flu, you become infected by breathing., There is no activity with influenza B in Denmark or in Europe at the moment. Influenza B typically occurs in February or March," says Svend Stensvang.
He also says that the five patients now have it so well that they can be printed.
"You have to stay home if you are ill, but the five patients are in remission and does not constitute any risk of infection," says Svend Stensvang.
Health Protection Agency warned the start of the week that the Danes should contact their physician if they have recently been in Qatar or Saudi Arabia and subsequently have flu-like symptoms, coughing, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing. http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-57622572:patienter-har-ikke-frygtet-virus.html?forside
