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There just was the first confirmed human to human infection outside of Asia in Germany. A guy got sick over the weekend, went to work on Monday as he felt bette

There just was the first confirmed human to human infection outside of Asia in Germany. A guy got sick over the weekend, went to work on Monday as he felt better and was sent to the doctor by his boss. He got infected during a seminar in Germany where he got into contact with a women from Shanghai whos parents are from Wuhan. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-deutschland-107.html https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-deutschland-107... edit: englisch source https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/germany-european-country-confirm-coronavirus-200128074844874.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/germany-european-coun... >The Chinese employee, a woman from Shanghai, "started to feel sick on the flight home on January 23", Andreas Zapf, head of the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety, said at a news conference. Unfortunately not a date for the meeting yet. edit2: corrections added, thank you

sanxiyn 7y ago
This is super important. Asymptomatic infection is wild card. https://twitter.com/akihheikkinen/status/1222108700262981633 https://twitter.com/akihheikkinen/status/1222108700262981633
dzdt 7y ago
Correction: the Chinese colleague was from Shanghai. She had been visited by her parents, who live near Wuhan, shortly before her trip to Germany.
netsharc 7y ago
> a women who visited Wuhan recently. The German article says the lady was visited in Shanghai by her parents, who live in the Wuhan area. That's a pretty fast-spreading virus...
cf141q5325 7y ago
The German Minister of Health (Jens Spahn) just gave a live interview. The German government made it mandatory for airlines to keep seating charts for 30 days and ask every traveler from China for a contact address where the person can be reached the next month. The Airlines will be mandated tomorrow, but it will take 3-5 days till the new regulation for hospitals to take effect, which makes reporting "Begründete Verdachtsfälle" "justified suspected-cases" mandatory, ie if you have the symptoms AND have been in China or had contact with someone infected. The minister also took the opportunity to criticizes all this panic and conspiracy theories in the internet. Everything is fine, nothing to do, nothing to see. What a shitshow its like the events from this morning hadnt happened yet.

sanxiyn 7y ago

This is super important. Asymptomatic infection is wild card. https://twitter.com/akihheikkinen/status/1222108700262981633 https://twitter.com/akihheikkinen/status/1222108700262981633

dzdt 7y ago

Correction: the Chinese colleague was from Shanghai. She had been visited by her parents, who live near Wuhan, shortly before her trip to Germany.

netsharc 7y ago

> a women who visited Wuhan recently. The German article says the lady was visited in Shanghai by her parents, who live in the Wuhan area. That's a pretty fast-spreading virus...

cf141q5325 7y ago

The German Minister of Health (Jens Spahn) just gave a live interview. The German government made it mandatory for airlines to keep seating charts for 30 days and ask every traveler from China for a contact address where the person can be reached the next month. The Airlines will be mandated tomorrow, but it will take 3-5 days till the new regulation for hospitals to take effect, which makes reporting "Begründete Verdachtsfälle" "justified suspected-cases" mandatory, ie if you have the symptoms AND have been in China or had contact with someone infected. The minister also took the opportunity to criticizes all this panic and conspiracy theories in the internet. Everything is fine, nothing to do, nothing to see. What a shitshow its like the events from this morning hadnt happened yet.