Coronavirus reaches France as deadly disease spreads

So far, 41 people have died from the virus in China; more than 1,400 people have been infected globally, including 4 in Australia and 3 in Malaysia
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Two of the three people who have been diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus arrived in France without showing symptoms, doctors at a Paris hospital said on Saturday. On Friday, France confirmed the first three cases of the virus in Europe - all Chinese nationals - with two patients hospitalised in Paris and the other in Bordeaux.
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    • In China, 41 people have died from the virus and more than 1,400 people have been infected globally, including four in Australia and three in Malaysia.
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    The two patients in Paris are a Chinese couple who arrived in France on Jan. 18, but did not show symptoms until Jan. 19 and 23 respectively, officials said.
    "They showed no symptoms when they boarded their plane," Yazdan Yazdanpanah, head of infectious diseases at Paris hospital Bichat told reporters.
    The third patient in Bordeaux, a 48-year old Chinese man who works in the French wine industry, had taken a plane from Wuhan to the Netherlands and entered France from there, SOS Medecins medical service in Bordeaux said.
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    Health Minister Agnes Buzyn told reporters the man had entered France on Jan. 22, had first consulted a doctor about his symptoms on Jan 23, with the virus confirmed Jan 24.
    The delayed appearance of symptoms and the entry via a third country underline the limits of screening passengers arriving from China in airports.
    Airports in several countries are using scanners to take the temperature of passengers arriving from China but France so far is not doing this.
    In Paris, there was a rush to buy face masks and several pharmacies said they were sold out.
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    A man wears a face mask on the Trocadero esplanade in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
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    "It has been like this since this morning, some people are hysterical," said a pharmacist in Paris.
    The French foreign ministry said on Friday that it had informed French citizens in Wuhan that it planned to set up a bus service to help them leave.
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    Those flimsy surgical masks do not stop this virus.
    Even the N95 mask is not meant for this purpose. The virus is simply too small to be trapped. Want to stay well? Stay away from crowds, stay away from closed areas with other people (elevators), wash your hands, get plenty of sleep. Common sense stuff that your mother taught you. Wearing the masks may protect you from other folks sneezing at you, but it really isn't capable of protecting you. Use your head, think about what you're doing and where you are. You'll be fine.
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    "The Hill" reported 35 MILLION have died of Coronavirus in
    in China and 58 MILLION are sealed off in cities that are cut off and dirt piled high on roads out to prevent people from leaving. No medicine or food or supplies are going in and there is no medicine left in the cities. Phones are shut off. Coronavirus was in vaccines for pigs. If one pig was vaccinated, the whole herd died until half the pigs in China were dead and people were eating rats and cats and dogs. 60% of the people infected with the Coronavirus die if over 65 years of age. A girlfriend in Florida in her 70s got it and it caused pneumonia and a heart attack. She was very healthy so she survived somehow. Whoever put the Coronavirus into pig vaccines must be prosecuted.
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    Facing the traditional Chinese information opacity
    The Chinese government is not informing the world about the danger of a virus created in a biological military laboratory (similar to Fort Derrick, MA, or Porton Down, UK), located just 20 miles north of Wuhan. Nor does it want to report on what is really happening in the three quarantined cities, or on the living conditions of the 50 million people trapped in them.
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