The patient died yesterday morning whilst being treated in the hospital’s critical care unit, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said.
\n[Source: The Independent<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It appears that those who died already suffered from other conditions, perhaps making them more susceptible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
There’s some fear being spread on the conspiracy boards, but in reality it is too soon to say, because they could have all contracted the disease environmentally:<\/p>\n
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Can it be transmitted from person to person?<\/h3>\n
This is not known with certainty at this time. The cases occurring in the same family raises the possibility of limited human-to-human transmission. Alternatively, it is possible that the infected family members were exposed to the same source of infection, for example, in a household or workplace.
\n[Source: WHO International<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The third member of a UK family to contract the new virus,\u00a0Novel Coronavirus, has died in hospital. It is similar to pneumonia, but substantially more deadly. So far 50% of twelve people infected worldwide have died.
\nA patient diagnosed with the Sars-like coronavirus has died at Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham it was confirmed today.<\/p>\n
The patient died yesterday morning whilst being treated in the hospital’s critical care unit, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said.
\n[Source: The Independent]
\nIt appears that those who died already suffered from other conditions, perhaps making them more susceptible.<\/p>\n
There’s some fear being spread on the conspiracy boards, but in reality it is too soon to say, because they could have all contracted the disease environmentally:<\/p>\n
Can it be transmitted from person to person?
\nThis is not known with certainty at this time. The cases occurring in the same family raises the possibility of limited human-to-human transmission. Alternatively, it is possible …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4902,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}