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With the diagnosis of coronavirus patients in Germany, more attention has been paid to the legendary German medicine. Everyone is impressed that Germany is not without experience in dealing with major epidemics. They visited once 9 years ago.
In May 2011, in northern Germany, foodborne E.coli that caused hemorrhagic diarrhea, hemolytic uremia, and various complications The outbreak eventually infected 3,842 people in 14 countries in Europe and North America, with a mortality rate of 1.3%. Among them, 2,947 people are from Germany, which is not a small number for a country with a population of about 80 million.
In fact, this kind of E.coli epidemic had been experienced by countries before the outbreak in 2011. But neither the number of infections nor the mortality rate is much higher than that of Germany this time. In early May 2011, after the epidemic reappeared in Germany, it quickly spread to many countries, including France, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Austria.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_outbreak
The author coordinated Beihang when SARS raged in 2003—the eye of the storm just a few hundred meters away from the Third Hospital of Beijing Medical University; in 2006, the bird flu broke out in Europe. I saw the flying eagle falling straight down and people around me exclaimed Bird flu. In the German H4 epidemic that was not encountered in Europe for 100 years in 2011, I was in the northern part of the Netherlands, which was only dozens of kilometers away from North Germany, the source of the storm. So, in general, I have experienced three major epidemics in China and Europe.
Now let me talk about what I experienced.
German experts also made mistakes, but …
Due to the rapid coming of the virus, and the source of the disease could not be found for a while, and Germany has not encountered such an epidemic for many years, H4 has worried the public for a while at the beginning, but far from panic and panic .
Germany announced the outbreak immediately.
German experts initially identified some food contamination sources, such as cooked beef products (Minced meat, hamburgers, kebabs) ; beef Fermented sausages made from mutton and mutton; fresh vegetables such as lettuce, tomatoes and spinach; cider without pasteurization; and raw milk and raw milk cheese.
It is even pointed out that the outbreak of this virus may be water-borne, from drinking water contaminated with feces (such as lakes, ponds and ponds) span>. The good news is that viruses don’t spread from human to human.
But no matter what kind of suspicion, the German media gave a report as soon as possible to inform the public what they need to pay attention to. In addition, the media from neighboring countries such as the Netherlands and France followed the rolling broadcast.
The most frequently used prevention and control guidelines appeared in newspapers and the Internet in these countries at that time, which are five points given by the World Health Organization (WHO) Suggestions: 1. Keep clean; 2. Separate raw and cooked; 3. Cook thoroughly