The second French patient is no longer a carrier of the coronavirus but he remains hospitalized in intensive care in Lille without an isolation procedure. His state of health is still considered serious by doctors.
“He carried the virus for quite a long time. He got rid of it but there is still someone who has been the subject of an extremely serious infection ”. This is the statement made this morning by Professor Daniel Matthieu, head of the intensive care unit of the CHR in Lille, at the microphone of Europe 1 to comment on the state of health of the second French patient affected by the new coronavirus.
The man in question is 50 years old and had shared the room of the first French patient with the infection from April 27 to 29 at the Valenciennes hospital. He was initially placed in quarantine, before being released in mid-July. But for several months, the Lille health establishment no longer wanted to communicate on the clinical evolution of this patient. The silence was however broken this morning by the Roger Salengro Hospital.
In more detail, we have known since today that this second contaminated French patient is still hospitalized in intensive care in Lille, “in serious condition”. In addition, the treatment he received enabled teams in Lille to make interesting advances in the treatments to be administered to patients affected by this virus.
“Currently in the coronavirus, we have not succeeded in identifying the treatments called antivirals. However, there are ways to think about a type of treatment that could be useful, ”explains the Professor. “These advances allow us today to offer treatments with a much greater chance of being effective than before the study of these two patients,” he concluded on Europe 1.
To date, 93 people have been infected with the MERS-CoV coronavirus and 46 people have died. The most affected country remains Saudi Arabia with 39 victims recorded in the Wahhabi kingdom, since the appearance of the virus in September 2012.
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