超级肺炎”暂无药可医 多伦多两人已感染死亡
文章来源: 中央社 于 2003-3-14 22:46:00:



多伦多卫生局今晚召开紧急记者会确定两名多伦多居民已死于正在亚洲蔓延的非典型肺炎，另有四名死者的亲戚亦受到感染，目前正在多伦多医院治疗中。

多伦多卫生局表示，死亡的两名多伦多居民为一对母子。母亲关水珠（Sui-chuKwan）死于三月五日，尚处强褓中的儿子植志光（ChiKwaiTse）则死于十三日。多伦多卫生局表示，两人死亡前曾去过香港。

安大略省卫生厅官员克尔吉今晚也发布新闻稿表示，在非典型肺炎病例于安大略省爆发后，卫生厅遵循标准作业程序，立刻通知民众。他也相信安大略省内的医院均会遵照规定程序严密监视并控制疫情的发展。

安大略省法医目前正在验尸，对两人死因做进一步的确认。此外，加拿大联邦政府设于温尼辟市的病毒检验中心亦在对导致两人死亡的病毒做进一步检验。

安大略省卫生厅在获悉多伦多两名居民死于非典型肺炎后，亦按照世界卫生组织的规定，立刻将案情报告联邦卫生部。

在多伦多传出两人死于非典型肺炎，四人感染的同时，西部的卑诗省亦传出一人感染非典型肺炎，一人业已康复的消息。加拿大卫生署官员表示，卑诗省的病例与多伦多病例没有关连。

"This particular illness" is the newly named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, an atypical pneumonia that was first recognized last November in China's Guangdong province.

An outbreak of the illness there killed five of the 350 people infected before ending in mid-February, World Health Organization spokesman Dick Thompson said.

Over the past week, more than 150 new or suspected cases of the pneumonia have been reported around the world, the WHO said. Nine of those people have died.

Other cases have been identified in Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam -- including one case of a Singapore doctor who began exhibiting symptoms as he flew from a medical conference in New York back to his home in Singapore.

The doctor, who had recently treated two SARS patients in Singapore, and his two traveling companions were placed in medical isolation Saturday in Frankfurt, Germany.

The New York City Health Department said the doctor attended the conference for only "a few hours" and had "minimal contact with others" during his two days in the city.

The physician is in stable condition with a respiratory illness, the health department said.

Another person, who traveled from the state of Georgia to Canada, appears to have been stricken with the illness, Gerberding said.

Health authorities in New York and Georgia are attempting to trace the travelers' contacts while they were in the United States, she said.

WHO said the outbreak of the disease constituted "a worldwide threat," but did not recommend travel restrictions.

The CDC, however, urged people to consider alternate to any plans to travel to the affected areas.

Asked whether the outbreak could have been caused by terrorism, Gerberding said, "We have to keep an open mind."

A spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration, which oversees security on airlines, said, "All information at present indicates this is a public health issue unrelated to any act of terrorism."

Gerberding said the CDC was taking no risks with the disease, handing out cards explaining the symptoms and what to do to people returning from cruises or trips to the areas where the disease has been identified.

太恐怖了，原来以为只在广州有呢，现在都传到加拿大去了，大家要小心呀！

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太恐怖了，原来以为只在广州有呢，现在都传到加拿大去了，大家要小心呀！

昏。。。。这个东西咋传染的呀？怎么预防？