The corona virus has reached Germany. Tropical doctor Camilla Rothe identified the pathogen in the Webasto employee. There is something unusual about the case.
- Since Monday, January 27th, it has been clear: the coronavirus * has reached Germany.
- The first coronavirus patient in Germany is a man from Bavaria who contracted a colleague from China.
- Tropical doctor Camilla Rothe has identified the pathogen in the 33-year-old.
Munich- Camilla Rothe was prepared together with her medical team. Day X, when a potential coronavirus patient would be sent to the Tropical Institute for the first time. When that's the case last Monday, a lot still comes together. Because the 33-year-old Webasto employee is not only the first person affected in Germany, but also a special case: The virus was transmitted from person to person outside of China.
Corona virus: This detail is particularly interesting for medical professionals from all over the world
"That was special for us," says the tropical medicine specialist. Especially since the Webasto colleague from China , who had visited Stockdorf (Starnberg district) and infected the man, was symptom-free. This point in particular is very interesting for medical professionals around the world. You call Rothe at the institute on Leopoldstrasse and want to talk to her. The establishment of the Ludwig Maximilians University, which is one of the largest in the Republic, currently provides valuable information on lung disease worldwide . The seventh patient was confirmed in Germany on Friday. "Every case," explains Rothe, helps doctors to understand the virus and its course of the disease.
Coronavirus: Three of the first four infected had hardly any symptoms
The following fact is interesting for the 45-year-old senior doctor, who also looked after the first Ebola case at the time: Three of the first four affected had almost no, only very mild, signs of illness . It is not yet foreseeable whether this will change in the next few days.
The first patient complained of sore throat and chills, later of cough and high fever. He was brought to a separate area in the Tropical Institute , where, among other things, smears were taken deep out of the throat. An entire floor has been available in the institute as an outpatient isolation unit for taking samples since Tuesday. Just like the 33-year-old, where the test on Monday was positive. For him, he immediately went to an isolation ward at the Schwabinger Klinik *, with which the institute works closely. The rooms in the hospital continue to fill up.
Here you can read how likely it is to contract the coronavirus *.
NADJA HOFFMANN
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