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韓国　少年　何度か検査した結果、ほとんど陰性　死亡
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17-Year-Old Dies of Pneumonia in Daegu
By Yang Ji-ho

March 19, 2020 12:51

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17-year-old student died Wednesday from acute pneumonia possibly caused by coronavirus, which would make him the first teenager in Korea to die of the infection.

The sudden death of the boy, who had no prior history of illness, just six days after being hospitalized has left medical experts stumped.

Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Jung Eun-kyeong told reporters, "The patient repeatedly tested negative for coronavirus and only the last test came out partially positive, prompting the KCDC to handle the testing."

According to hospital officials, the teenager was tested eight times from March 13 until this Wednesday and only the last test suggested some probability of infection.

He first visited a local hospital on March 12 after displaying symptoms of pneumonia, but a doctor sent him back home. His condition worsened the next day and the teenager developed a high fever, prompting his parents to take him to the bigger Yeungnam University Medical Center where he was treated under quarantine. He was placed on a respirator on March 14.

Ma Sang-hyuk at Changwon Fatima Hospital said, "Such cases of acute pneumonia are very rare in Korea and we are highly suspicious of a coronavirus infection. This could have been a case of 'cytokine storm syndrome,' which generates an excessive immune response that arises as a complication of some diseases or infections."

If the teenager is found to have died of coronavirus, fears of the disease are expected to grow even further. Until now, the disease was thought to be fatal only to patients with weakened immune systems and other conditions, chiefly the elderly.

この水曜日までに８回検査をうけて、ずっと陰性だったが、最後の検査だけ、陽性。肺炎の症状があったので、３月１２日地元の病院を訪問したが、医者は自宅療養しろ、と。翌日症状が悪化し、高熱が出たので、両親は大学病院へつれていく。隔離されて検査。１４日は人工呼吸器装着。

１９日付けの朝鮮日報英語版


S. Korea sees uptick in new virus cases as new clusters pop up
All Headlines 11:43 March 19, 2020
こちらも同じく１９日付けだが、聯合ニュース

A 17-year-old boy without underlying illnesses died of pneumonia on Wednesday in Daegu.
The boy had been tested 13 times, but a sample from his urine tested positive for the virus on the day of his death.
However, KCDC Deputy Director Kwon Jun-wook told reporters that the boy posthumously tested negative for the virus, describing the results of his urine sample test as "undecided."
Kwon said there was an "error" in testing in a lab at a university hospital and experts confirmed that the lab was contaminated.

こちらでは、少年は１３回検査をうけており、陽性がでたのは、彼が亡くなった当日の小便からのサンプル。しかし、死後検査したところ、陰性であり、小便検査については不確定　大学病院でミスがあり、実験室は汚染されていた、と。

１）検査の回数がメディアによって違う。
２）８回とか１３回とか、そんなに検査するものなのか？
３）大学病院の実験室の検査はあてになるのか？・・・ならないのか？　普段はどうなのか？
４）肺炎の症状がでていても韓国では検査してもらえないのか
・・・・
いろいろと疑問の残る記事である。