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'Mystery pneumonia' patient remains stable

Researchers at a public health institute in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, examine samples collected from a Chinese woman to find the cause of her mysterious pneumonia symptoms, Thursday. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the previous day that the 36-year-old woman, who had visited the Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei Province in December, showed symptoms of an illness with an unknown cause that is spreading there. /YonhapBy Bahk Eun-jiThe health authorities said Friday that the first patient to be placed under quarantine here for a suspected pneumonia-like illness that has reached epidemic proportions in China, remains stable.The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said the pneumonia symptoms of the 36-year-old Chinese woman had improved.Tests for streptococcus-, mycoplasma-, Legionella- and chlamydia- pneumoniae, psittacosis, enterovirus and coccidioides are currently being conducted after the woman tested negative for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).“The additional test results will take one more week,” said Kim Eun-kyung,

Jan 10, 2020By Bahk Eun-ji
'Mystery pneumonia' patient remains stable
  • South Korea's 'pneumonia-like' illness case unrelated to China outbreaks: Korean authority

China believes new virus behind mystery pneumonia outbreak

In this Jan. 4, 2020, file photo, a health surveillance officer monitors passengers arriving at the Hong Kong International airport in Hong Kong. A preliminary investigation into viral pneumonia illnesses sickening dozens of people in and around China has identified the possible cause as a new type of coronavirus, state media said on Jan. 9. APChina believes a mysterious pneumonia outbreak that struck 59 people is caused by a new strain of virus from the same family as SARS, which killed hundreds of people more than a decade ago.Lead scientist Xu Jianguo told the official Xinhua news agency that experts had "preliminarily determined" a new type of coronavirus was behind the outbreak, first confirmed on December 31 in Wuhan, a central Chinese city with a population of over 11 million.It initially sparked fears of a resurgence of highly contagious Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome, and prompted authorities in Hong Kong ― badly hit by SARS in 2002-2003 ― to take precautions, including stepping up the disinfection of trains and aeroplanes, and checks of passengers.China has since ruled o

Jan 9, 2020
China believes new virus behind mystery pneumonia outbreak
  • Chinese woman quarantined as suspected case of mystery pneumonia

15 SNS influencers, YouTubers caught for false ads

By Bahk Eun-jiThe food and drug authority has found over 150 online ads of weight-loss supplements that make exaggerated claims or provide false information regarding the efficacy of the products.An advertisement on Instagram shows a false representation of the results of a weight-loss supplement. /Courtesy of Ministry of Food and Drug SafetyThe Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) said Thursday, it monitored influencers with more than 100,000 followers on social media platforms including Instagram and YouTube, and who have advertised weight-loss supplements on their accounts, for five months from last August, and cracked down on 153 exaggerated or fake claims regarding 33 products. The influencers and famous YouTubers who were caught, had advertised the specific products by uploading posts that implied they'd lost weight as a result of the products. Of the posts, 126 advertised food products such as “detox juice” and teas to “cleanse the body,” as effective weight loss products.Five postings even claimed the products treat or prevent cancer and heart disea

Jan 9, 2020By Bahk Eun-ji
15 SNS influencers, YouTubers caught for false ads

Gov't on edge after first suspected case of mystery pneumonia

A quarantine officer checks the temperatures of passengers arriving at Pyeongtaek Port in Gyeonggi Province, Thursday, through a thermal infrared monitor. The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention?said it has confirmed the first suspected case of pneumonia from China. /YonhapBy Bahk Eun-jiHealth authorities are struggling to confirm what pathogen is causing cases of pneumonia from China as the first suspected case of the illness was reported here, the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said Thursday.The KCDC said a 36-year-old Chinese woman who had visited Wuhan, the capital of China's central Hubei Province, has been under isolated treatment amid growing concerns that she might bring the disease back to Korea. The woman was diagnosed with pneumonia on Tuesday following two trips to China last month. “She is the first possible case of the illness, although she didn't show any serious health conditions except (some of) the symptoms of pneumonia such as a cough and a swollen throat,” said Kim Sung-soon an official of the KCDC's infectious disea

Jan 9, 2020By Bahk Eun-ji
Gov't on edge after first suspected case of mystery pneumonia

Chinese woman quarantined as suspected case of mystery pneumonia

An ambulance is parked at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday. A woman is being held in isolation there. YonhapPeople go through temperature screening at the Pyeongtaek-Dangjin Port, Wednesday. YonhapBy Jung Min-hoA Chinese woman who recently visited the Chinese city of Wuhan has been isolated in Korea as a suspected case of a mysterious viral pneumonia that has infected dozens of people in central China and put the rest of the world on alert.According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) Wednesday, the woman, 36, who visited Wuhan between Dec. 13 and 17, has been isolated at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital in Seongnam after showing symptoms of the illness.The woman entered Korea on Dec. 17 and has been here since, except for four days for a business trip to Xiamen in China (Dec. 26-30).So far, 59 cases have been reported in Wuhan. On Sunday, the city's health commission said all patients have been treated in isolation and seven are in critical condition.The cause has not yet been identified. The Wor

Jan 9, 2020By Jung Min-ho
Chinese woman quarantined as suspected case of mystery pneumonia
  • China believes new virus behind mystery pneumonia outbreak

'Milk decreases breast cancer risk by 42%'

 Drinking milk everyday can reduce the risk for breast cancer up to 42 percent, a recent study found./ gettyimagesbankBy Kim Se-jeongDrinking milk everyday can reduce the risk for breast cancer by up to 42 percent, a recent study found.According to the epidemiologic study done by the team of Seoul National University's School of Medicine researchers, women who drank milk every day ― 200 milliliters each time ― were found to have 42 percent less probability of getting the cancer compared to those who drank less than once a week or didn't drink at all.The team of the preventive medicine department sampled a group of 93,306 Korean women between the ages of 40 and 69 in a cohort study, following them for a period of 10 years and analyzing the data. The study results were published in the journal Nutrients recently.The results showed that the age the women were when they drank the milk matters ― the younger they started to drink it, the less vulnerable they were to the cancer. Those who drank milk consistently in their 40s had a 10 percent lower risk than those who started to drink m

Jan 8, 2020By Kim Se-jeong

Korea reports suspected case of mysterious pneumonia

GettyimagesbankSouth Korea on Wednesday reported a suspected case of a mysterious pneumonia-like illness that has been spreading in China, the public health and safety agency said.According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), a 36-year-old Chinese woman who had visited the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province showed symptoms of the illness.The patient has been isolated and is undergoing treatment after going into a local hospital on Tuesday.China has been grappling with people who have shown pneumonia-like symptoms such as fever, throat swelling and coughing in recent weeks."The person is not suffering from any serious ill health," the KCDC said.It said measures have been taken to tighten monitoring of people entering the country. (Yonhap)

Jan 8, 2020
Korea reports suspected case of mysterious pneumonia

Welfare system failing to rescue poor

Suwon city's welfare officials talk with a city resident in need of urgent help during their visit. The government's social welfare policy again came under fire after a three-member family with financial problems committed suicide earlier this week. / Korea Times fileBy Kim Se-jeongThe government's social welfare system has come under fire after a three-member family struggling with financial difficulties committed suicide earlier this week. On Monday, the police in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, found three people ― two adult women and one child ― dead in their home. In a hand-written note, the child's mother mentioned financial struggles as the cause for the drastic decision. The child's mother was separated from the father and was supporting the family. This is only one of many similar stories heard in recent years. According to the Hankyoreh, 18 similar cases have been reported last year alone with 70 people dead. What was commonly found in those families was that they were never detected by government welfare service providers. The local Gimpo government found no record of the mother

Jan 7, 2020By Kim Se-jeong
Welfare system failing to rescue poor

Authorities on alert over mysterious pneumonia from China

Quarantine officers check the temperatures of passengers arriving at Incheon International Airport, on flights from Dubai, in this Sep. 10, 2018 file photo. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are taking preventive measures against the spread of a mysterious pneumonia from China, although no suspected cases were reported in Korea yet. Korea Times fileBy Bahk Eun-jiHealth authorities are stepping up precautionary measures to prevent possible spread of a mysterious pneumonia from China as nearly 1,800 people entered Korea via the Chinese city of Wuhan, the site of the first outbreak, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said Tuesday.The KCDC said it has been taking necessary quarantine steps, including tightened control at immigration booths and temperature screening on all flights from Wuhan, the capital of China's central Hubei Province. The health authority has been on high alert as it was when Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) hit the nation in 2015, the KCDC said.According to the disease control center, there are eight flights a week f

Jan 7, 2020By Bahk Eun-ji
Authorities on alert over mysterious pneumonia from China

Panic disorder: sudden feeling of peril

gettyimagesbankBy Bahk Eun-jiChloe Yang, 45, a college lecturer in Seoul, said she remembers her first panic attack a few months ago vividly. She was on her way to the parking lot after class when her daughter called asking her which food they were going to cook for dinner. Just like an ordinary mom and teenage daughter, for 5 minutes they debated about what they would eat for dinner. “Immediately after hanging up, my heart started pounding so fast and I felt like I was suffocating. All of a sudden, every noise on the street just rang in my ear so loudly,” Yang said. After the attack, the underground parking lot of the college building she came in and out of every day, become terrifying, she said.“I don't even remember how long I was sitting in the back seat of my car on the day.”Doctors define a panic attack as an episode of intense fear that comes suddenly but in the absence of real danger. People may have one or two panic attacks in their lifetimes, but the problems vanish when the stressful situation ends. But if the panic attack recurs, unexpectedly, and

Jan 5, 2020By Bahk Eun-ji
Panic disorder: sudden feeling of peril
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