SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health said on Saturday (Jan 4) that it had been notified of the first suspected case of the mystery Wuhan virus here, involving a three-year-old girl from China who had pneumonia and a travel history to the Chinese city of Wuhan.
She has been warded for further assessment and treatment, and isolated as a precautionary measure, said the Ministry.
She was in stable condition, and preliminary tests showed that the case was positive for Respiratory Syncytial Virus, a common cause of childhood pneumonia, it added.
Investigations are ongoing to confirm this as the cause.
MOH noted that the girl had not visited the Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan associated with the cluster of pneumonia cases.
Besides Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam, are also carrying out temperature screening on passengers arriving from Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province.
The Wuhan health commission said 11 of the 44 people diagnosed with the pneumonia were in critical condition as of Friday. All were being treated in isolation and 121 others who had been in close contact with them were under observation.
Most of the cases have been traced to the South China Seafood City food market in the suburbs of sprawling Wuhan, where offerings reportedly include wild animals that can carry viruses dangerous to humans. The commission said the market has been disinfected.
The most common symptom has been fever, with shortness of breath and lung infections in a small number of cases, the commission said. There have been no clear indications of human-to-human transmission of the disease. - The Straits Times/Asian News Network
She has been warded for further assessment and treatment, and isolated as a precautionary measure, said the Ministry.
She was in stable condition, and preliminary tests showed that the case was positive for Respiratory Syncytial Virus, a common cause of childhood pneumonia, it added.
Investigations are ongoing to confirm this as the cause.
MOH noted that the girl had not visited the Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan associated with the cluster of pneumonia cases.
Besides Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam, are also carrying out temperature screening on passengers arriving from Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province.
The Wuhan health commission said 11 of the 44 people diagnosed with the pneumonia were in critical condition as of Friday. All were being treated in isolation and 121 others who had been in close contact with them were under observation.
Most of the cases have been traced to the South China Seafood City food market in the suburbs of sprawling Wuhan, where offerings reportedly include wild animals that can carry viruses dangerous to humans. The commission said the market has been disinfected.
The most common symptom has been fever, with shortness of breath and lung infections in a small number of cases, the commission said. There have been no clear indications of human-to-human transmission of the disease. - The Straits Times/Asian News Network
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