A 73-year-old man in the German state of Bavaria has died after contracting the Chinese communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia) for the second Time, the first known case of its kind in Germany, the state’s health authority announced.
The man was reportedly first infected with the virus in April 2020 and again in late December 2020, before being detected in early January this year. He eventually died of CCP virus pneumonia and sepsis with multiple organ failure.
The man’s city, Freudenstadt, was the first region in Germany where the British variant of the virus was found. However, Stefan Brockmann, head of the health protection and epidemiology department at the health authority in Bavaria, said no new variant of the virus had been found in the patient.
Brockmann said the man had a previous history of the disease. Therefore, it is likely that he did not develop a strong immunity when he was first infected. So far, he said, the probability of a person contracting the CCA virus a second time is small. There have been isolated cases like this because the patient did not develop enough antibodies the first time.
According to media reports, this may be the third known case of death worldwide after reinfection with the CCP virus. Last October, an 89-year-old Dutch woman died after her second infection, having a low immune system. Last December, an Israeli newspaper reported that a 74-year-old nursing Home resident who survived the first infection died last August after being re-infected.
There is still too little information about people with second-degree infections to draw concrete conclusions, and continued observation is needed.
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