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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

French coronapatient dies

HEALTH - It is a man of 65, the first patient detected ...
One of the two patients died coronavirus in France, announced on Tuesday the Ministry of Health told AFP. Contacted by 20 Minutes, the Directorate General of Health (DGS) said that the victim was the first patient detected - a man of 65 who traveled to Dubai. The second patient, aged forty years, is a man who shared the room the first from 27 to 29 April. According to medical sources, the state "remains stable but still very serious."

The Minister of Health Marisol Tourain, said on Tuesday that there is "no new situation in terms of the epidemic." In a statement, the University Hospital of Lille "deplores the death [...] the first patient coronavirus, hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the University Hospital Centre of Lille since May 9, 2013, following a multi-organ failure" . He was placed under extracorporeal support, "to take over his pulmonary function," the statement said.
Toubles digestive
Contaminated man in France was presented April 23 at the hospital Valenciennes (North), where he was followed for a chronic disease, and then had digestive problems, which explains why it has not been isolated . Contamination by the new coronavirus was confirmed on May 7
Both patients were hospitalized at the University Hospital of Lille.
http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1163389-20130528-deux-patients-atteints-coronavirus-france-decede