【转帖】CDC:新冠肺炎于2019年11月在米兰男孩发现

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From://nypost.com/2020/12/09/covid-19-found-in-milan-boy-in-november-2019-cdc/

早在2019年11月，意大利一名4岁的男孩就感染了新冠肺炎，这表明病毒在之前就已经在世界各地传播。

据一家公司称，这名来自米兰郊外小镇的孩子于2019年11月21日因咳嗽而病倒，一周后被送往医院。报告星期二来自疾病控制和预防中心。

据米兰生物医学科学促进卫生部的研究人员称，他被怀疑患有麻疹，症状包括呕吐、呼吸问题和皮疹。

但在2019年12月5日的测试中，他的样本显示他对病毒呈阳性反应，尽管这是在该地区确诊之前的三个月。

研究人员说，他们无法确定病毒的来源，因为样本是从男孩的喉咙而不是鼻子上提取的。

但研究人员说，这名男孩在确诊时并没有在意大利境外旅行--这意味着该病毒已经在那里传播到了深秋。

作者写道：“在意大利北部，SARS-CoV-2的长期传播至少在一定程度上有助于解释第一波新冠肺炎在伦巴第的破坏性影响和快速发展过程。”

中国之前曾试图推动这一理论危机在意大利爆发，而不是在武汉。

北京官员指出另一项研究建议这种病毒最早可能早在9月份就在这个南欧国家蔓延。

然而，科学家们注意到，即使病毒出现在意大利比以前知道的更早，但这并不排除中国爆发的可能性。

米兰国家癌症研究所的乔瓦尼·阿波罗告诉记者：“我们知道中国推迟了疫情的宣布，所以目前还不清楚中国是何时开始在意大利开始的，而且中国与意大利北部有着很强的商业联系。”伦敦时报.

COVID-19 found in Milan boy in November 2019: CDC

A 4-year-old boy in Italy contracted COVID-19 as early as November 2019 — suggesting the virus had been spreading around the world before previously known.

The child from a town outside Milan came down with a cough on Nov. 21, 2019, and was brought to the hospital about a week later, according to a reportTuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

He was suspected of having measles after coming down with symptoms that included vomiting, respiratory problems and rashes, according to researchers from Milan’s Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health.

But tests performed retroactively on a Dec. 5, 2019, sample from him showed he was positive for the virus, despite it being three months before the illness was confirmed in the region.

Researchers said they were unable to determine the origin of the virus strain since the specimen was taken from the boy’s throat instead of his nose.

But the boy had not traveled outside Italy around the time of his diagnosis — which suggests that the virus was already circulating there in late fall, researchers said.

“Long-term, unrecognized spread of SARS-CoV-2 in northern Italy would help explain, at least in part, the devastating impact and rapid course of the first wave of COVID-19 in Lombardy,” the authors wrote.

China has previously tried to push the theory that the contagion broke out in Italy — not in its city of Wuhan.

Officials in Beijing pointed to another study that suggested the virus may have been spreading in the Southern European nation as early as September.

Scientists, however, have noted that even if the virus was in Italy earlier than previously known, that does not rule out the outbreak originating in China.

“We know that China delayed announcing its outbreak so there is no telling when it started there, and China has very strong commercial links with northern Italy,” Giovanni Apolone of Milan’s National Cancer Institute told the Times of London.