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WaPo:SARS-like virus has high mortality rate in Saudi Arabia, specialists say
A new virus responsible for an outbreak of respiratory illness in the Middle Eastmay be more deadly than SARS, according to a team of infectious disease specialists who recently investigated a set of cases in Saudi Arabia.
Of 23 confirmed cases in April, 15 people died — an “extremely high” fatality rate of 65 percent, according to Johns Hopkins senior epidemiologist Trish Perl, a member of the team that analyzed the spread of the virus through four Saudi hospitals.
Saudi officials said that as of Wednesday, 49 people have contracted the disease and 32 have died.
The infectious disease experts, who published their findings online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, reported that infection occurred by way of person-to-person contact and poses an especially serious risk because it is easily transmitted in hospital settings.
Now I hate to be a cynic, but how long will it be before YOU KNOW WHO gets blamed for this.
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From The We Told You So Department...
First see this (down the post a bit to WHAT IF THIS IS BIO-TERROR, NOT SIMPLE EBOLA?) and listen also to this around the 24:50 point Now Read this from China.org.cn Deadly Marburg hemorrhagic fever breaks out in Uganda The deadly Marburg hemorrhagic...
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Scientists Say They Have Found A Way To Fight Sars And Mers
From Business Insider: An international team of scientists say they have identified a compound that can fight coronaviruses, responsible for the SARS and MERS outbreaks, which currently have no cure. Coronaviruses affected the upper and lower respiratory tracts in...
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Deadly Mers virus ‘could be spread by cats and dogs’ and is not just found in Saudi Arabia, scientists warnHousehold pets like cats and dogs could be partially to blame for the spread of the mysterious Mers virus, an expert has said, as scientists...
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Man Being Treated In A London Hospital For A Lethal 'sars-like' Mers Has Died
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: Man being treated in a London hospital for a lethal 'Sars-like' MERS has died. HT: AstuteBlogger.(Telegraph). "In the end his lungs were worn down, so secondary infection is the real problem. The virus effectively...
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All Confirmed Hospitalized Al Hasa MERS-CoV Dialysis Cases Died. - Case fatality rate of 76 percentFrom Will at THE OTHER NEWS: All Confirmed Hospitalized Al Hasa MERS-CoV Dialysis Cases Died. - Case fatality rate of 76 percent .HT:Recombinomics....
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