The corona pandemic has been spreading around the world since November 2019.
Now there is a suspicion that an Italian woman might have contracted the virus first.
A case already occurred in Italy in November 2019.
A 25-year-old Italian complained of skin problems.
Review: First corona infected person in Germany.
The coronavirus has been spreading around the world since the end of 2019.
Before the
corona pandemic was
reported
daily
in the media,
a
25-year-old woman from Italy
is said to have been
infected with Covid-19
in
November 2019
.
At the beginning of November 2019, the woman will be examined for a rash and a skin sample will be taken by biopsy.
A
symptom
as a sign that this could be Corona - but doctors wasted no thought on it at this point.
The 25-year-old did not have any other health problems.
The origin of the corona pandemic: first infected in Italy in 2019?
An international
team of researchers
, coordinated by the Italian University Università Statale di Milano, is said to have discovered that the Milanese woman is the first patient to be infected with the coronavirus, reports the Italian daily
La Repubblica.
"In this pandemic there are cases in which
skin irritation is the only symptom,
" says the Milanese
pathologist Raffaele Gianotti
.
He and his colleagues looked again at abnormal skin samples from the last months of 2019, for which there was no clearly definable diagnosis at the time.
"I was wondering whether we could find clues in skin samples before the officially recognized start of the epidemic," said the pathologist.
First corona infected in Italy in 2019: biopsy shows genetic sequences of the virus's RNA
At the age of 25, the young Italian had no symptoms whatsoever that would indicate an infection with the coronavirus.
Your skin irritation went away after almost five months.
In her biopsy on November 10th, genetic sequences of
the virus's RNA
were finally found
, reports
repubblica.it
.
Performing a
serological test
means that patients who have had contact with the virus have developed an immune response.
This test was carried out on the young woman in June 2020 - and antibodies were detected, researchers publish in the
British Journal of Dermatology
.
Corona pandemic 2019: Scientists want to find out more facts about Covid-19
Research,
vaccine companies
, side effects and long-term harm - researchers and scientists want to find out more about the coronavirus.
At the end of January 2020
, a business traveler from China brought the virus to Germany for the first time.
A 33-year-old entrepreneur at the auto supplier Webasto got infected from this colleague from China.
A total of 16 people were infected
with the corona
virus
from the traveling entrepreneur
in the
Munich
region
.
According to media reports, the first cases came from an animal market in the megacity of Wuhan.
