Indian woman, Preeti Maheshwari, has become the first foreigner to have contracted the deadly virus that has outbreak in China. The 45-year-old is undergoing treatment for a Streptococcal infection which was initially suspected to be a case of mysterious SARS-like coronavirus prevalent in the country.
Preeti, a school teacher, is being treated for the infection in the intensive care unit and is currently on a ventilator and other supporting systems. Initially it was suspected that Ms Maheshwari may have been suffering from a new type of coronavirus. Mr Khowal, however, clarified that his wife case had been diagnosed as Streptococcal infection. her husband Ashuman Khowal is allowed to visit her daily.
Chinese city of Wuhan is currently under the grip of a new mysterious viral pneumonia. According to the official media reports, tentative diagnosis of the pneumonia is caused by a coronavirus. The virus has caused alarm because of its connection to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) which killed nearly 650 people in China and Hong Kong in 2002-2003. According to the reports from Wuhan, where the virus started surfacing few weeks ago, 17 new cases have been reported, taking the total number of cases to 62.
