A Chinese baby born to a patient infected with Wuhan corona virus was diagnosed with the deadly disease 30 hours after birth. Doctors in China are now concerned that the corona virus could be passed from mother to child. The news came after experts claimed that the virus could also be spread through feces.
A newborn baby in China infected with the corona virus, doctors suspect corona virus can be transmitted from mother to child
The sex of the newborn baby has not been revealed, was born in Wuhan on Sunday. The mother had confirmed coronavirus infection before labor.
The hospital put the baby on quarantine and follow-up 30 hours later and the result was positive.
Later, the baby was transferred to Wuhan Children's Hospital, which is designated by the government to treat all infected children.
The three-day-old baby's condition has stabilized and is being closely watched, the hospital announced via a post on its official social media account today.
'This reminds us to pay attention to a new path of corona virus transmission - vertical transmission from mother to baby,' said Dr. Zeng Lingkong, chief doctor of the hospital's Department of Neonatal Medicine.
Another case when the baby was infected with corona virus
The infant was one of two babies found to carry corona virus by Wuhan Children's Hospital.
Another 17-day-old baby was found sick after being born healthy on January 13.
The hospital said their family hired a nurse to look after the baby on January 22, but the nurse was soon diagnosed with the disease.
The baby's mother was diagnosed with coronavirus on January 26, and the baby started coughing and had a fever three days later.
The baby was diagnosed with the virus on January 31 after the doctors had given her a medical examination.
Medication has not been confirmed if the baby was infected with the virus from his mother or his nurse.
Another case has not yet had a newborn baby that has not been tested
On Saturday, doctors and nurses dressed in hazmat suits and goggles practiced the practice of performing a birth at Wuhan Union Hospital.
Doctors said the boy was healthy at birth, but because of his health, the hospital has yet to let him test for coronavirus.
The number of deaths from the epidemic continued to rise in China as the government reported 66 new deaths overnight and Hong Kong saw their first victim yesterday.
The life-threatening disease, which can be spread through saliva, has killed at least 493 people and infected more than 24,600 globally.
The State Department yesterday told all 30,000 British citizens trapped in mainland China to return to the UK in a desperate effort to protect their health.
But the announcement was met with anger when it appeared that all evacuees outside Wuhan - the city in the center of the service - had to find their own way out, even though the major airlines suspended all. flights to China and cities are locked.
What is Wuhan Corona Virus?
Corona virus is a virus that can infect animals and humans. It invades cells inside their host and uses them to reproduce and disrupt normal functions of the body. The coronaviruses are named after the Latin word 'corona', meaning crown, because they are surrounded by a pointed shell just like a royal crown.
The corona virus from Wuhan was a type not seen before this outbreak. It is currently named 2019-nCoV and has no more detailed name as very little is known about it.
Is this an epidemic or a pandemic?
Although it has spread to dozens of countries, the epidemic is not yet considered an epidemic, defined by the World Health Organization as "the spread of a new disease" around the world.
WHO's head of global infectious risk prevention, Dr. Sylvie Briand, said: 'We are not in a pandemic right now. We are at a stage where it is an epidemic with many focal points and we are trying to quell the transmission in each of these focal points, 'The Guardian reported.
She said that most of the cases outside of Hubei were 'pervasive' from epicenter, so the disease didn't really spread around the world.
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