世卫：可能永远不会发现零号病例！零号病例到底是啥？

据央视消息，当地时间15日，世卫组织举行新冠肺炎例行发布会。世卫组织卫生紧急项目技术主管玛丽亚·范·科霍夫表示，一些研究通过临床样本或储存的血清样本发现2019年已存在新冠肺炎病例，世卫组织将跟进这些研究，但可能永远不会发现新冠肺炎零号病例。

According to CCTV news, on the 15th local time, WHO held a routine press conference for new coronary pneumonia. Maria van Kokhov, technical director of the WHO health emergency project, said that some studies have found cases of new coronary pneumonia in 2019 through clinical samples or stored serum samples. WHO will follow up these studies, but may never No. 0 case of new coronary pneumonia was found.

在医学界，“零号病例”指的是第一个得传染病，并开始散播病毒的患者。在流行病调查中，也可叫“初始病例”或“标识病例”，正是他造成了大规模的传染病暴发。如果发现多个最初的病例的话，会依次以原发（primary）、二代（secondary）、三代（tertiary）等进行命名。

In the medical world, "Case Zero" refers to the first patient who contracted an infectious disease and began to spread the virus. In epidemiological investigations, it can also be called "initial case" or "identified case", and it is he who caused a large-scale outbreak of infectious diseases. If multiple initial cases are found, they will be named after the primary, secondary, tertiary, etc. in turn.

 

 

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