A 4-year-old boy from Milan already had the coronavirus on November 21, 2019, but it was believed that it was measles, according to a study by the State University of the Lombard capital, published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseasese.
The Italian media today echo what would then be the “patient 1” in Itali
Oh, it would prove that the disease was circulating long before the end of February when the first cases began to be reported.
According to the study, on November 30 the child was transferred to the emergency room with respiratory symptoms and vomiting and on December 1, spots very similar to those of measles appeared on the skin.
On December 5, therefore, 14 days after the onset of symptoms, A test was performed to look for measles and it was kept in the hospital according to the protocol of the measles and rubella surveillance network.
The test result was negative and he was subsequently tested for SarsCoV2 and was positive as this disease can lead to a syndrome similar to Kawasaki and It also causes skin manifestations, common to other viral infections, such as measles.
For the researchers, this proves that the virus had been circulating for some time, as evidenced by the abrupt and sudden impact with which the pandemic occurred in February and for subsequent investigations, including the detection of the virus in Milan’s sewage in mid-December 2019.
Furthermore, they add, this prolonged and unrecognized spread of Sars-CoV-2 in northern Italy could explain, at least in part, the devastating impact of the first wave in northern Italy.
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