Via the Centre for Health Protection: Fever patient with travel history tests negative for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. Excerpt:
A spokesman for the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) today (June 28) provided an update on a suspected case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome affecting a 36-year-old woman.
The preliminary laboratory testing by the Public Health Laboratory Services Branch of the CHP on her respiratory specimens yielded negative results for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. The patient is in stable condition.
The CHP received notification from a private hospital yesterday (June 27). The patient, with good past health, has presented with fever, cough and sputum since June 17. She attended the private hospital yesterday and was subsequently transferred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for isolation and treatment.
Locally, the CHP will continue its surveillance mechanism with public and private hospitals, practising doctors and the airport for any suspected case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
"No human infection with this virus has been identified so far in Hong Kong," the spokesman stressed.It would be remarkable if the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reported real and suspected cases with the regularity that Hong Kong does.
