#TwoYearsAgo, 1-1-2020. "The World Health Organisation (@WHO) said it is in ongoing contact with authorities in #China over an unidentified outbreak of viral pneumonia in the central city of #Wuhan, amid concern it may have been transmitted from animals"🤨 scmp.com/news/china/pol…
@WHO#TwoYearsAgo, 2-1-2020: "As Chinese scientists continue their probe of an unusual viral pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, (...), as governments in nearby Asian destinations stepped up their surveillance in travelers and at hospitals". 🤔 cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspecti…
@WHO#TwoYearsAgo, 3-1-2020. "Experts in and outside China have raised the possibility that a new type of coronavirus may be the culprit. Coronaviruses can trigger a wide range of respiratory symptoms with some (...) known to cause severe or fatal infections". cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspecti…
@WHO#TwoYearsAgo, Jan 4th. “China has extensive capacity to respond to public health events and is responding proactively and rapidly (...) isolating patients, tracing close contacts, cleaning up the market, and searching for the cause and additional cases”.🤔 scmp.com/news/china/sci…
@WHO@mtosterholm@CIDRAP#TwoYearsAgo, Jan 7th. Prof. Leo Poon said "the severity of the situation to come depends on whether the pneumonia in Wuhan can be transmitted among humans". Prof. David Hui said "the possibility of human-to-human transmission cannot be ruled out".😬 edition.cnn.com/2020/01/06/hea…
@WHO@mtosterholm@CIDRAP#TwoYearsAgo, Jan 8th. Meanwhile "Hong Kong is taking tougher precautions against a mysterious, pneumonia-like virus in central China, laying the legal groundwork to put patients under quarantine if necessary"... 😳
#TwoYearsAgo, Jan 8th (bis). "If the Wuhan pneumonia were found to be contagious, it could pose a major public health challenge coming just before the Lunar New Year holiday, when more than 400 million Chinese are expected to travel".🙄 washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
#TwoYearsAgo, Jan 9th. In a China Central Television interview, Dr. Xu Jianguo, an expert leading the investigation, said the virus isolated from one patient was examined microscopically and found to most likely be a new coronavirus. 😳 cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspecti…
#TwoYearsAgo, Jan 9th (bis). Meanwhile @WHO statement... "The preliminary determination of a novel virus will assist authorities in other countries to conduct disease detection and response". 🧐 who.int/china/news/det…
#TwoYearsAgo, Jan 10th. As per International Health Regulations (2005), countries should ensure: 1) resources... 2) procedures... 3) safe transportation of symptomatic travellers... 4) public health emergency contingency plan...
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#TwoYearsAgo, Jan 10th (ter). Interesting to read more about isolation precautions that were already recommended on January 2020... 🙄cdc.gov/infectioncontr… via @CDCgov
#UnAnnoFa... "Il focolaio di infezioni ha indotto timori di una potenziale epidemia dopo che la Cina ha dichiarato che il virus che lo ha causato è sconosciuto, ma proveniente dalla stessa famiglia di virus che ha causato le epidemie di #SARS e #MERS".🧐 reut.rs/36JSBvU
#OneYearAgo "The cluster of infections had raised fears of a potential epidemic after China said last week that the virus causing it was a previously unknown type but came from the same family of viruses that caused the #SARS and #MERS epidemics".🧐 reuters.com/article/us-hea…