French health officials said Friday that they suspected three cases of a deadly new respiratory virus SARS related, in people who had close contact in the hospital with France's only confirmed case investigations.
Beatrice Degrugillers, a spokeswoman for the regional health Agency in the French region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais region said a nurse at the Hospital where the man was hospitalized in late April has himself been under watch at the hospital in Douai since Thursday night.
A doctor and a former Hospital roommate who each had had the first patient also continue to contact hospital. Test results are expected later Friday.
If confirmed, it would be the additional cases concerned about the ability of the virus to spread easily between people. Health authorities said earlier that the new coronavirus has spread in limited circumstances between people in very close contact, such as family members taking care of family members.
In 2003, the spread of SARS in hospitals in Asia led to a global outbreak. Officials believe the spread of a new virus in hospitals to the first character that is gaining the ability to infect people easily.
Authorities on Wednesday announced that the 65-year-old Frenchman was France the first confirmed case of the new corona virus, which has killed 18 people since last year in the Middle East be identified.
The patient got sick after returning from a nine-day vacation in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates as part of a package tour, said the Ministry of health.
The man, whose identity was not released, returned from Dubai on 17 April. He was admitted to hospital with respiratory problems in the northern French town of Valenciennes on 23 April, and transferred to a more advanced facility in Douai on 29 April.
Pasteur Institute of Paris the man virus analyzed and confirmed that a new coronavirus.
Since September 2012, the World Health Organization of 30 confirmed cases of the virus has been asked and 18 of the patients have died. Cases have emerged in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Britain and Germany, and health officials say the virus has probably already spread from person to person in certain circumstances.
Since the virus came last year, European authorities place control measures have been introduced. In France, 20 people are already being investigated for suspected cases of the virus, but the other 19 turned negative, Health Minister Marisol Touraine said.
The patient who traveled to Dubai is the only positive case. His relatives are tested and not be infected.
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