Taiwan successfully isolates virus strain武漢肺炎疫情露曙光！台灣成功分離病毒株　有望加速疫苗研發

Dawn of pneumonia outpeak in Wuhan! Taiwan's successful isolation of virus strains expected to accelerate vaccine development

Yesterday (1/31) Taiwan added another 10 cases of Wuhan pneumonia. The patient was a 40-year-old Taiwanese businessman who returned from Wuhan on January 12 and was the husband of the ninth case. The case has recovered but the virus is still present in the body and is temporarily classified as confirmed. However, the good news is that China has successfully isolated the Wuhan pneumonia virus strain from patients and is expected to develop related vaccines in the future.

The outside world has questioned how the epidemic detection staff detected the virus since the 10th case was cured. Anti-epidemic doctor Huang Wanting said that after the ninth case of the Taiwanese businessman's wife was confirmed, the epidemic prevention staff suspected that her husband was likely to be infected, and then traced and checked the husband of the case to confirm whether there was a hidden source of infection. A virus gene was detected in the respiratory tract, and a virus gene fragment was confirmed. It was determined that the Taiwan businessmen had been infected, and it was listed as the 10th confirmed case.

Zhuang Renxiang, an official from the monitoring and control department, said that virus strains have been found from patients and successfully isolated, and they will be able to engage in more research, cultivation, development of vaccines, drug treatments and new drug development in the future. However, Zhuang Renxiang said that he could not disclose which unit successfully isolated the virus strain, but could only say that "not the Department of Disease Control", because many laboratories and hospitals in Taiwan have sampled virus samples, and many hospitals have the ability to isolate the virus strain.

Minister Weifu Chen Shizhong also announced at the press conference that following mainland China, Australia, and Japan, Taiwan has already been able to isolate the virus scientifically, becoming the fourth country or region in the world to isolate Wuhan pneumonia virus.

武漢肺炎疫情露曙光！台灣成功分離病毒株 有望加速疫苗研發

台灣昨日（1/31）再添武漢肺炎確診第10例，患者是1月12日從武漢回國的40多歲台商，為第9例個案的丈夫，中央流行疫情指揮中心昨表示，雖然該個案已痊癒，但體內仍存有病毒，暫時列為確診。不過好消息是，我國已成功從病患體內分離出武漢肺炎的病毒株，未來可望研發相關疫苗。

外界質疑既然第10個案已痊癒，防疫人員如何檢測出病毒？防疫醫師黃婉婷表示，在第9例台商妻子確診後，防疫人員懷疑受丈夫感染可能性大，進而追查並採檢該個案丈夫、確認有無隱藏感染源，也因此從這名已康復的台商呼吸道中檢測出病毒的基因、確認有病毒的基因片段，判定台商曾受到感染，列為確診第10例。

監測應變官莊人祥說道，目前已從患者體內找到病毒株且成功分離，未來將能從事更多研究、培養、發展疫苗、藥物治療和新藥開發等。但莊人祥表示，不能透露是哪個單位成功分離出病毒株，只能說「不是疾管署」，因為台灣有很多實驗室和醫院都有採樣病毒檢體，很多醫院已有能力去分離病毒株。

衛福部長陳時中也在記者會上宣布，繼中國大陸、澳洲、日本後，台灣在科學上已經可以分離出病毒，成為全球第4個分離出武漢肺炎病毒的國家或地區。

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