Ik denk dat de media dit erg opklopt. Het WHO heeft het over bewust worden van mogelijk gevaar. Tot
nu toe verspreidt dit virus zich niet heel gemakkelijk. Ik maak me hier geen zorgen over, dan zou ik
me ook druk moeten maken over bijv. ESBL bacterieen.
WHO Assistant Director-General Keiji Fukuda said there was no
evidence so far that the virus was able to sustain ‘generalised transmission in
communities’ - a scenario that would raise the spectre of a pandemic.
He added: ‘Of most concern is the fact that the different
clusters seen in multiple countries increasingly support the hypothesis that when there is close
contact, this novel coronavirus can transmit from person to person.
‘There is a need for countries to increase levels of
awareness.’
Coronavirus emerged in the Gulf last September and has now infected at least
34 people
A public health expert who declined to be identified, said
‘close contact’ meant being in the same small, enclosed space with an infected person
for a prolonged period.
Mr Fukuda, part of a WHO team visiting Saudi Arabia to
investigate the spread of the disease, said although no specific vaccine or medication was yet
available for novel coronavirus, patients were responding to treatment.
‘The care that is taken in the hospitals, in terms of using
respirators well, in terms of treating pneumonia, in terms of treating complications, in terms of
providing support, these steps can get patients through this very severe illness,’ he
said.
A World Health Organisation team are investigating the Al-Moosa
hospital in Saudi Arabia where several patients are being treated.
‘One focal point of the investigation at the moment is the
hemodialysis unit in the hospital,’ said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl in Geneva, referring to
equipment used on kidney and diabetes patients.
‘The association of this outbreak with a single health care
facility suggests hospital-acquired transmission,’ he said, noting that some patients under
treatment for ailments may have had increased susceptibility to infection.
‘However, the presence of infection in people not associated
with the facility itself raises a concern about potential broader transmission in the
community,’ he said.
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. Zou ook geen moment
getwijfeld hebben om te enten tegen de MG als mijn kindje longproblemen of hartproblemen had... dan
was het besluit de andere kant opgegaan. Ik hoop/ga er van uit dat het ook ditmaal een ver van ons
bed show blijft... 
Zoon 2007 en Dochter 2012