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作者：搬运工 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Mar. 17, 2003. 08:54 AM
China seeks help fighting pneumonia strain
Illness `seems amenable to treatment,' WHO official says
BEIJING (AP) — The strain of mystery pneumonia that has sickened hundreds in southern China since November "seems amenable to treatment," the World Health Organization said today. It said the Chinese government has requested help from WHO to investigate the malady.
But Hank Bekedam, a WHO official in Beijing, said the number of cases reported by the Chinese government is unchanged since mid-February — 305 sickened and five dead.
A Chinese Health Ministry report released by WHO said ``antibiotics did not have an obvious effect" on patients in Guangdong province.
But, the report said, "the patients are being cured one by one."
It gave no further details.
Alan Schnur, team leader of communicable-disease control for WHO in Beijing, said the Geneva-based organization's unusual health warning last week was issued because of how fast the malady seemed to be travelling and "the global nature" of the problem.
He called the mystery pneumonia in China "a new communicable disease" but emphasized that there was still no link to cases in other countries.
"We are dealing with a new communicable disease where we don't know the cause," Schnur said.
Added Bekedam: "At the moment, there is no proof of a clear linkage."
Nine deaths from atypical pneumonia have been reported in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Canada. WHO is treating the cases as one emergency, though it isn't clear whether they are related. The first cases were reported in southern China late last year.
WHO said Saturday that 150 new suspected cases had been reported over the past week. In addition to the areas with deaths, it said new cases came from Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Five people died after contracting atypical pneumonia in Guangdong province, where Guangzhou is located, between November and February. Another 305 people were reported sickened.
CP 0419ES 17-03-03
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