29 Hospital Staff Suffering Pneumonia in HK

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29 Hospital Staff Suffering Pneumonia in HK

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Among the 43 public hospital staff suffering from respiratory tract infection, 29 are with pneumonia symptoms, a statement issued jointly by Hong Kong's Department of Health (DH) and the Hospital Authority (HA) said on Friday.

At least 10 cases of atypical pneumonia have been diagnosed as caused by unknown virus in a Hong Kong hospital since last week.

The department has informed the World Heath Organization (WHO) of the developments.

However, community surveillance showed no sharp increase in the number of cases of influenza or pneumonia in Hong Kong over the past two months, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food Yeoh Eng-kiong said Thursday.

He said the special administrative region government is highly concerned with the recent outbreak and he would personally lead a steering group comprising experts and officials from HA and DH to speed up information exchange and coordinate preventive efforts being taken out by various parties.

By Thursday, some 24 public medical and nursing personnel hospitalized had shown initial signs of pneumonia, two of them were in serious condition and the rest were all in stable condition.

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