The first case of Covid-19 in Europe described in Germany on the 24th of January last

A man of 33 years old, German, could be the first european to have contracted the infection for the new coronavirus and to have it transmitted. Communicates a letter of the German physicians published in the New England Journal of Medicine on 5 march. The man has shown respiratory symptoms and high fever on the 24th of January. The symptoms are improved, and on the 27th of January is back to work. On 20 and 21 January, she attended a meeting where he was a colleague of Shanghai, which has remained in Germany from the 19th to the 22nd of January without having any disturbance. The woman, however, has started to feel bad during the flight back to China, where she was found positive to the virus 2019-nCov on the 26th of January. The 27 has informed the German partners of the positiveness, and in Germany, we have started to test on the colleagues who had met her, including the man 33 years of age, which was found positive to the virus even if it is now asymptomatic. On 28 January were found to be positive, the three other employees of the same company, who had had contact with the man when he was asymptomatic.

", note — write the authors of the communication — that the infection seems to have been transmitted during the incubation period, when the symptoms were mild and non-specific" and added: "In this context, the fact that the virus has been found in substantial quantities in the sputum of man, even in his period of convalescence arises the problem of the transmissibility of the virus even after the symptoms, although the viral load detected with the test is yet to be confirmed through a culture of the virus". "The fact that viremia can be present also after the disappearance of the symptoms was already known," confirms Walter Ricciardi , the representative of the executive Committee of the World Health Organization, and adviser to the minister of Hope. "and it should lead to monitoring of patients discharged after hospitalization, which is recommended to do a swab even after the resignation

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