A Corona virus is spreading quickly across China, 9 people are dead hundreds are ill it is
now affecting the U S
here in the US, the Centers for
Disease Control confirms a
Washington man contract of it
during a recent visit to China.
Passengers now arriving from
China will be screened for the
respiratory illness at 5 us
airports. They include New
York, la Atlanta, Chicago and
San Francisco. As a matter of
fact the World Health
Organization is convening an
emergency committee of experts
today to assess whether this
outbreak constitutes an
international emergency.
Nancy mess when yea
director of the cdc’s National
Center for immunization and
respiratory diseases call this
a
serious situation and referring
to previous epidemics of
serious and complex respiratory
outbreaks caused by new
viruses. She said it was
crucial for the US to be
proactive and prepared.
She said at the start of an
outbreak, the earliest cases
tend to be the most severe.
I think we’ll see at least one
case in the United States
that’s before we knew about the
Washington man and that’s why
we’re moving forward so quickly
with the screening. Now this is
similar to the sars virus which
killed 774 people in
2003 by the end of that
outbreak more than 8,000 people
in 37 countries were infected.
What is Corona virus. What’s
the risk
to Americans. Joining me is
doctor Alexis bosco’s a
pulmonologist for Memorial
Hospital, good to have you
here. So what are the chances
this could become another
pandemic like sars I think the
chances are low compared to the
Pentagon we had in 2003.
Mostly because we know more
about the Corona virus that we
didn’t almost 17 years ago and
we’re being very productive as
far as getting ahead of it now,
and as far as it being a sars
epidemic like we had
in 2003 I think chances are
very low. So how does this
virus manifest itself. So the
reason why everybody’s concern
about it is because it’s
airborne me is just
through air. And the office
seats transmitter so obvious as
well, but the main concern is
to airborne which very
contagious. So that’s a human
to human transmission. But it
started from animals, it
did so the crown of ours is
about 9 different types of
going by so we know about.
originated from animals to the
2 that were concerned about or
the sars and there’s the one after that and this new one that just came out. Work
still up in the air whether
came from my fish market in
China. But we know for sure if
transmitted human to human
the airborne. What’s
frightening is does not respond
to antibiotics. No known
vaccine yet. Now now none of
the Cone of ours has a vaccine
and they do not and 2 cars did
not work at this time I didn’t
read it. The
through a fortune there’s no
treatment for this right now.
Right now shes rest.
Fluids and there’s
really no treatment for it
unless it becomes a demonic
process at that point in a box
we wanted. And the centers are a lot like pneumonia lot like flu. And how do you
differentiate. It’s very tough
it looks it’s out starts like
the common cold and then
it almost if it progresses you
could concern whether this may
be the flu or not and
if you for having productive
cough and it is starting with
us maybe pneumonia, so it’s
really impossible. The
different between the flu and
this so people will be
traveling it’s the Chinese
lunar New Year.
If you are going to be
traveling the question becomes
how to protect yourself.
So if you’re traveling
specially tesia is I would
highly recommend that you wear
a mask. Hand hygiene.
But wearing a mass
would be extremely important
considering is an airborne
virus. And we heard you know
from some medical experts you
know just like with the flu you
talk about
hand hygiene simply just
washing your hands frequently
things like that the usual
precautions. Absolutely
people think about it when
somebody is infected cost her
hand touches it. The door
handle your next after that you
touch or you touch yourself in the face now in fact with the virus is talking a good
thorough handwashing yes
and that’s better than hand
sanitizer but if you can’t wash
your hands.
Good cars and hand sanitizer
does a great option. Yeah OK,
some good advice. There.
All right no need to worry
right now just be proactive
proactive front right now.
The good thing is is only one
case in the US, we know that
that the person traveled from
China. And hopefully we just
continue very few
cases here and the during that
screening at the airports being