sardog10

Was just reading about this on Yahoo news. Seems this is the first global alert WHO has issued in 10 years, and they must be pretty serious about it if they've quarantined 155 passengers from a flight that landed in Frankfurt today.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...monia_who_dc_6

Carta_Pisana

I read that also this morning - very disturbing.

moonbeam

Maybe you should post this on the Asia board.

rex

Maybe it already is posted there. The quarantine, however, occurred in Europe.

A lot of people died before Legionella and hantavirus were figured out.

Doctors in infectious diseases remain true pioneers, sailing with maps that are far from complete.

Best wishes, to all that this touches...

Rex
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CharlieB

Rex - though the flight was quarantined in Frankfurt it was a flight from China and the originating source seems to be the Far East. At the present time this should concern travellers to Asia.

rex

My point was more that the scare will be rampantly spread throughout Europe because the quarntined passengers are being held there, and Europe's doctors are at the front line as a resulot of that now. The causative agent may end up on every continent frighteningly quickly.

CalgirlSusan

Did I read that report wrong in the New York Times? I thought it said that the man quarantined in Frankfurt had flown from New York, where they believe he had visited a hospital, but that he is from Singapore.

aeiger

Hi
Thank you for informing me about this serious issue. According to the AP on Sat. night, 3 people have died, including an American and two people who arrived in Canada from Hong Kong. No cases have been identified in the US, but a doctor was taken off NY-Singapore flight in Germany and quarantined.. This is taken serious as in 1997 I contracted Legionella in Slovakia and was on a vent and in ICU for 2 wkks. My wife was questioned by representatives of the CDC and my case was confirmed by the hospital. I hope the find out what it is soon.

sardog10

First, it's already been posted by someone else on the Asia board, but that was a great idea.

As I understand it, of the two people in Toronto to die, one was the mother who travelled to Asia and the other was her son who did not. Now there is also a couple in Vancouver with it. The passenger who was removed from the flight from New York was a doctor who treated a patient with it back home in Asia.

It's absolutely wonderful how globally open our world is now, but it just makes this pneumonia that much more scary.

marktynernyc

NYC Hospitals on Alert for Pneumonia

NEW YORK (AP) - City health authorities on Saturday
alerted hospitals to watch for symptoms of a
mysterious and deadly pneumonia-like illness believed
to have afflicted a doctor from Singapore who had
visited New York.

marktynernyc

it has gone from "removing the doctor from a flight" to now being he
"VISITED" NYC

RufusTFirefly

Sounds like the same sort of confusion and uncertainty in the medical community that greeted the first outbreaks of the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919.