#MERS #Coronavirus Saudi Arabia - Victims brother "Corona": Health announced Chweehma without our knowledge of the disease

2013-08-31

 Still people living Sulaymaniyah drilling subcontractor living with news of the virus on the number of cases in the district Iktnnouna, where he died a citizen two weeks ago, died of a wound infection, according to Ministry of Health announced via its official announcement comes the Ministry of Health yesterday recovering two of the contacts of the injured died, one at the age of 7 years and the other 16 years to open the door a new question about the extent of the spread of the virus, especially with the non-reporting of contacts by the fact injuries. 
said بداح brother of the deceased Fahad Al-Sahli's "home": It surprised a statement the Ministry of Health through its website and that healing cases in contact with his brother of the deceased, where he confirmed that the Ministry of Health and Health Affairs dug a subcontractor did not inform them of the emergence of the virus to any of the family members who have had tests, how are announced heal two of the contacts of the infected deceased, and added that his mother lying currently in the King Khaled Hospital General in isolation section a few days ago did not show the results of analyzes. 
demanded Sahli the Ministry of Health to be more transparency and credibility in dealing with his family, because of their psychological and health is very bad and they are living long dwell time to respond to their questions and the results تحاليلهم, calling on the ministry to continue continuous and inform them of the health status of the members of his family So there will be no new cases,

Continued:  http://www.alwatan.com.sa/Nation/News_Detail.aspx?ArticleID=158100&CategoryID=3

#MERS #Coronavirus Medina Qatar Commentary

We have 2 cases that could be related.
One case came out of Qatar.  The person had just returned from Medina, Saudi Arabia.
Below in red:

Qatar

#1—49(M)—Qatar—9/3/12—6/28/13

#2—45(M)—Doha—10/5/12—Discharged late Nov. 2012

#3—59(M)—Qatar—8/15—Stable Condition

#4—29(M)—Qatar—Rptd 8/26—ICU Critical Condition

 

Date of Report:  8/21/13

Name:  59(M)

From:  Qatar

Entered Qatar:  8/15

Onset:  8/15

Adm:  Hamad General Hospital, Stable Condition

Note:  Traveled to Medina Saudi Arabia previously for 6 days.  Detected upon admission to Qatar.  Did not take part in Umrah and did not visit Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_08_29/en/index.html 

It may have been a contact with the previous confirmed case, the 59(M).  There are not other confirmed recent cases.

Date of Report:  8/26/13

Name:  29(M)

From:  Qatar

Adm:  National Flu Center Critical Condition

Note: Co-morbidities (asthma).  

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_08_29/en/index.html

Could it be that the 59(M) above had traveled to Medina Saudi Arabia to visit the case out of Medina.  That case was reported after the confirmed case in Qatar.  Epidemiological tracing led them to the case in Saudi Arabia.  That case, died today.

Date of Report:  8/28/13

Name:  55(M)

From:  Medina [Madinah] Province, Medina city, Saudi Arabia

Note:  suffering from chronic kidney failure and he contracted the virus in the Eastern Province.

Onset:  8/17

Adm:  ICU

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_08_30/en/index.html

DOD:  8/31

#MERS #Coronavirus Saudi Arabia - 2nd Death in Medina - 49 Total Deaths

August 31, 2013
A 55-year-old Jeddah man suffering from renal failure died of complications from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) at a Madinah hospital. His death brings the number of patients worldwide killed by the virus to 49.
Forty-three people have died of MERS in Saudi Arabia. The total number of cases in the Kingdom is 84.
Earlier this week, the Health Ministry reported that a 38-year-old Saudi, who was suffering from severe pneumonia and respiratory failure had died.
The victim in Madinah was a Saudi originally from Jeddah, making it the second reported MERS case from the city. A 2-year-old child died early in July.
The man was also suffering from chronic renal failure and was undergoing treatment at the ICU at King Fahd Hospital.
Meanwhile, Dr. Halden S. Shane, president and CEO of TOMI Environmental Solutions, Inc., of Beverly Hills, California, told an environmental and medical group at an infectious diseases conference in Riyadh that binary ionization technology could be effective in combating bacteria and viruses.
Binary ionization technology is a disinfection system that uses cold plasma to a hydrogen peroxide-based aerosol. The application could be effective against MERS, Shane told the group in Riyadh.
According to the WHO, 94 laboratory-confirmed and 16 probable cases of the MERS have been reported to the organization since April 2012. Other affected countries in the Middle East include Jordan, UAE and Qatar.

http://www.arabnews.com/news/463100 

CIDRAP: Saudi Arabia's Top Expert on Testing Camel's for #MERS #Coronavirus

August 30, 2013
Excerpt

Ziad A. Memish, MD, Saudi Arabia's deputy minister for public health, discussed MERS-CoV during a webinar presented today by the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida. He covered much of the same ground as in an Aug 21 webinar from Washington, DC, but offered a few new details.

Memish is part of a team of scientists who have hunted for the source of MERS-CoV by testing bats and other animals in Saudi Arabia. Last week the group reported that a small fragment of DNA from a bat near the home of the country's first MERS-CoV victim was a perfect match for the human virus (see today's related story).

He said the team, which includes scientists from Columbia University and the Ecohealth Alliance, also looked for the virus in camels.

"We did not find the virus in any of the camels we tested," Memish said, but he did not disclose how many camels were tested or what tests were used. He indicated that the findings would be published soon.

Full article:  http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/08/who-notes-four-latest-saudi-mers-cases

Vietnam: No #H7N9 or #H5N1 Reported

 August 30, 2013, Excerpt:

Particularly for cases of acute respiratory infections are severe, Institute Hygiene and Epidemiology, tested 81 samples, the results do not have any positive cases of influenza A (H7N9) and influenza A (H5N1). According to a report of six provinces, key cities (Ha Noi , Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Hai Phong, Lao Cai and Lang Son) shows the total number of passengers coming from China are monitoring the 35 183 people, of which 18 983 are in the air, road 14 527 people and waterways is 1,673 people. Results not reported any suspected cases of influenza A (H7N9). Tran Dac Phu also stressed the risk of epidemic influenza A (H7N9) in Vietnam penetration is huge because this strain is derived from the gene Avian influenza virus detection and virus influenza A (H7N9) in pigeons in China...
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Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City has conducted monitoring in Dong Thap and Long An. Ministry of Health has allocated to the units of Tamiflu, local establishment of interdisciplinary inspection team to check, direct guide prevention and control of influenza A (H7N9) in the provinces ...

http://www.tintuconline.info/viet_nam_chua_ghi_nhan_truong_hop_mac_cum_h7n9-2-22481371.html 

"Health" escape denies patient "Corona" of King Fahd Hospital in the city

Ahmed Al Nahari - Medina  August 30, 2013

Friday denied media spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Dr. Khaled Marghalani , some newspapers reported on electronic means of social communication about the escape of a Saudi citizen infected with Corona from King Fahd Hospital in Medina during the medical staff 's willingness to transfer the patient to the isolation room ..
And came in the context of the news published that the medical staff did not find the patient fugitive in his room and is still being sought for the patient fugitive ..
He Dr. Marghalani not escape the patient is infected with Corona in the city, he said in response to the inquiry that he had been communicating with the Department of King Fahd Hospital in the city , which has shown that there is no patient Corona hospital in the current period .
He explained that there is a resident of irregular arrived to the hospital because of a car accident which injured a broken leg and had to leave the hospital before treatment is completed and the security authorities reinstatement within one hour only, and called Dr. Marghalani to visit the Ministry of Health -mail to follow the updates take place automatically to follow the progression of the disease and infected The cases of the deceased , pointing out that the Ministry of Health to deal with all the media with the utmost transparency to the announcement of the results of injuries and ways definition of prevention of infection and activating the role assigned to the Ministry of Health awareness .

The Ministry of Health has announced the end of last week for the death of the first infection of the virus in Medina for someone at the age of 55 years, just 24 hours after the discovery of a virus Corona while still undergoing Almkhalton and people close to the situation deceased for analysis minute to make sure that contracting the virus.

http://www.al-madina.com/node/474922/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B6-%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%81%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83-%D9%81%D9%87%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9.html?live

#MERS #Conorabirus Saudi Arabia Cluster in Al-Batin, Eastern Province

[As I mentioned earlier, the contacts of confirmed cases are always tested.  Here we have a cluster in Eastern Province, Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia]

Date of Report:  8/28/13 [Blue font indicates Cluster]

Name:  38(M)

From:  Eastern Province, Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia

Note:  Suffering severe pneumonia

DOD:  8/28  WHO says 8/17

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_08_30/en/index.html

Date of Report:  8/30/13

Name:  16(M) – Son of 38(M) above

From:  Eastern Province, Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia

Note:  Contact Case

Adm:  No.  Asymptomatic

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_08_30/en/index.html

Date of Report:  8/30/13

Name:  7(F) – Daughter of 38(M) above

From:  Eastern Province, Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia

Note:  Contact Case

Adm:  No.  Asymptomatic.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_08_30/en/index.html

WHO: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) - update 8/30/13

30 AUGUST 2013 - WHO has been informed of an additional four laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia.

The first patient is a 55-year-old man with an underlying medical condition from Medina who became ill on 17 August 2013 and is currently hospitalised.

The second patient is a 38-year-old man with an underlying medical condition from Hafar al-Batin who became ill on 8 August 2013 and died on 17 August 2013.

The third and the fourth cases are family contacts of the second patient. Both the cases, a 16-year-old boy and a seven year-old girl, tested positive for the MERS-CoV virus. They are both healthy and do not have any symptoms of illness.

Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 108 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including 50 deaths.

 Continued:  http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_08_30/en/index.html

CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases: R292K Substitution and Drug Susceptibility of Influenza A(H7N9) Viruses

Volume 19, Number 9—September 2013

Dispatch

Abstract

Neuraminidase inhibitors are the only licensed antiviral medications available to treat avian influenza A(H7N9) virus infections in humans. According to a neuraminidase inhibition assay, an R292K substitution reduced antiviral efficacy of inhibitors, especially oseltamivir, and decreased viral fitness in cell culture. Monitoring emergence of R292K-carrying viruses using a pH-modified neuraminidase inhibition assay should be considered.

Katrina Sleeman¹, Zhu Guo¹, John Barnes, Michael Shaw, James Stevens, and Larisa V. Gubareva 

Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/9/13-0724_article.htm?s_cid=eid-gDev-email 

CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases: Antigenic and Molecular Characterization of Avian Influenza A(H9N2) Viruses, Bangladesh

Volume 19, Number 9—September 2013

Research

Abstract

Human infection with avian influenza A(H9N2) virus was identified in Bangladesh in 2011. Surveillance for influenza viruses in apparently healthy poultry in live-bird markets in Bangladesh during 2008–2011 showed that subtype H9N2 viruses are isolated year-round, whereas highly pathogenic subtype H5N1 viruses are co-isolated with subtype H9N2 primarily during the winter months. Phylogenetic analysis of the subtype H9N2 viruses showed that they are reassortants possessing 3 gene segments related to subtype H7N3; the remaining gene segments were from the subtype H9N2 G1 clade. We detected no reassortment with subtype H5N1 viruses. Serologic analyses of subtype H9N2 viruses from chickens revealed antigenic conservation, whereas analyses of viruses from quail showed antigenic drift. Molecular analysis showed that multiple mammalian-specific mutations have become fixed in the subtype H9N2 viruses, including changes in the hemagglutinin, matrix, and polymerase proteins. Our results indicate that these viruses could mutate to be transmissible from birds to mammals, including humans.

Karthik Shanmuganatham, Mohammed M. Feeroz, Lisa Jones-Engel, Gavin J.D. Smith, Mathieu Fourment, David Walker, Laura McClenaghan, S.M. Rabiul Alam, M. Kamrul Hasan, Patrick Seiler, John Franks, Angie Danner, Subrata Barman, Pamela McKenzie, Scott Krauss, Richard J. Webby, and Robert G. Webster 

 

Author affiliations: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA (K. Shanmuganatham, D. Walker, L. McClenaghan, P. Seiler, J. Franks, A. Danner, S. Barman, P. McKenzie, S. Krauss, R.J. Webby, R.G. Webster); Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (M.M. Feeroz, S.M.R. Alam, M.K. Hasan); University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA (L. Jones-Engel); Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore (G.J.D. Smith, M. Fourment); Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA (G.J.D. Smith)

 

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/9/13-0336_article.htm?s_cid=eid-gDev-email 

#MERS #Coronavirus UAE - Confirmed Case First Death

From my list:

Date of Report  7/12/13 – Blue Font Represents contact cluster

Name:  82(M) – Index Case

From:  United Arab Emirates

Adm:  Hospital in Abu Dhabi, ICU

Note:  Is hospitalized with multiple myeloma. 

Date of Report:  7/18/13

Name:  28(M)

From:  Abu Dhabi

Note:  Healthcare worker of confirmed 82(M) above.  No sym’s.  Identified thru surveillance of confirmed case (82M 7/12).  From one of two hospitals.

WHO Update: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_07_18/en/index.html

Name:  30(F)

From:  Abu Dhabi

Note:  Healthcare worker of confirmed 82(M) above.  No sym’s.  Identified thru surveillance of confirmed case (82M 7/12).  From one of two hospitals.

WHO Update: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_07_18/en/index.html

Name:  30(F)

From:  Abu Dhabi

Note:  Healthcare worker of confirmed 82(M) above.  Upper respiratory sym’s.  Identified thru surveillance of confirmed case (82M 7/12).  Worked at one of two hospitals.  Stable condition.

WHO Update: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_07_18/en/index.html

Name:  40(F)

From:  Abu Dhabi

Note:  Healthcare worker of confirmed 82(M) above.  Syms: upper respir.  Stable condition.  Identified thru surveillance of confirmed case (82M 7/12).  From one of two hospitals.

WHO Update: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_07_18/en/index.html

Man dies of Mers-CoV in UAE: WHO 
Case of 82-year-old Emirati is first Mers-related death confirmed in UAE
August 30, 2013

Geneva/Abu Dhabi: An Emirati with a previously confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (Mers-CoV) has died, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. The 82-year-old Emirati, who had been undergoing chemotherapy for the last two years, was the first death from Mers coronavirus confirmed in the UAE. The world health body’s report on Wednesday said the Emirati man died earlier this August and was not known to have travelled abroad. Susceptibility to the deadly virus increases when a patient has pre-existing conditions.
Continued:  http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/health/man-dies-of-mers-cov-in-uae-who-1.1225543

#MERS #Coronavirus Recent Case Listing

I have cleaned up my list, thanks to the information from the World Health Organization and Saudi Arabia's disclosure.  Here is a listing of some of the latest cases, from August 21st to present.  The case in Qatar, 59(M) has traveled to Medina Saudi Arabia before getting sick.  We had a case reported Wednesday (8/28) from Medina. The case we reported, is stated as contracting the virus from the "Eastern Province".  So if the Qatar case were to contract it from the case reported in Medina, the Medina case is reported to have caught it from the Eastern Provnce.    I do not usually put up "suspected" cases.  There is one on the list below.  The family of confirmed cases are always checked as part of the protocol, and KSA has been doing an excellent job.

Date of Report:  8/21/13

Name:  59(M)

From:  Qatar

Entered Qatar:  8/15

Onset:  8/15

Adm:  Hamad General Hospital, Stable Condition

Note:  Traveled to Medina Saudi Arabia previously for 6 days.  Detected upon admission to Qatar.  Did not take part in Unrah and did not visit Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_08_29/en/index.html 

Date of Report:  8/21/13

Name:  50(F)

From:  Rayadh

Adm:  ICU

Note:  Has cancer & other co-morbidities.

http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/CoronaNew/PressReleases/Pages/mediastatement-2013-08-21-001.aspx

Name:  70(M)

From:  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Adm:  ICU

Note:  Co-morbidities.

Name:  54(M)

From:  Riyadh

DOD:  8/21/13

Note:  Co-morbidities

http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/CoronaNew/PressReleases/Pages/mediastatement-2013-08-21-001.aspx

Date of Report:  8/22/13

Name:  31(M)

From:  Asir region, Saudi Arabia

Adm:  ICU

Note:  Co-morbidites

Name:  55(M)

From:  Asir region, Saudi Arabia

Adm:  yes

Note:  Contact of confirmed case.  Asymptomatic.

Name:  51(M)

From:  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Note:  Previously reported.  Co-morbidities, cancer.

DOD:  8/22/13

  

Date of Report:  8/26/13

Name:  29(M)

From:  Qatar

Adm:  National Flu Center Critical Condition

Note: Co-morbidities (asthma).  Contact case. 

  

Date of Report:  8/26/13

Name:  Mother of Case 51(F) above

From:  Saudi Arabia

Adm:  King Khaled Hospital, Hafr Al-Batin

Note:  Cared for 51(F) that died, posted on 8/22. 

Confirmed:  Suspected.

Date of Report:  8/28/13

Name:  38(M)

From:  Eastern Province, Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia

Note:  Suffering severe pneumonia

DOD:  8/28

Name:  55(M)

From:  Medina [Madinah] Province, Medina city, Saudi Arabia

Note:  suffering from chronic kidney failure and he contracted the virus in the Eastern Province.

Adm:  ICU

Saudi Arabia Total:  84, 42 deaths.

WHO Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) - update August 29, 2013

29 AUGUST 2013 - WHO has been informed of an additional two laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Qatar.

The patients include a 59-year old man with an underlying medical condition who became ill on 15 August 2013. He is currently hospitalised and is in stable condition.

Preliminary epidemiological investigations reveal that the patient travelled to Medina, Saudi Arabia for 6 days and returned to Qatar on 15 August 2013. He did not take part in Umrah and did not visit to Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina. Further investigation is on-going.

The second patient is a 29-year-old man with an underlying medical condition who had no history of recent travel outside the country.

The results of both the cases were confirmed by an international reference laboratory. A total of 138 healthcare workers, family and community contacts have been screened in the country and so far all tested negative for MERS-CoV infection.

Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 104 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including 49 deaths.

Based on the current situation and available information, WHO encourages all Member States to continue their surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) and to carefully review any unusual patterns.

Health care providers are advised to maintain vigilance. Recent travellers returning from the Middle East who develop SARI should be tested for MERS-CoV as advised in the current surveillance recommendations.

Specimens from patients’ lower respiratory tracts should be obtained for diagnosis where possible. Clinicians are reminded that MERS-CoV infection should be considered even with atypical signs and symptoms, such as diarrhoea, in patients who are immunocompromised.

Health care facilities are reminded of the importance of systematic implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC). Health care facilities that provide care for patients suspected or confirmed with MERS-CoV infection should take appropriate measures to decrease the risk of transmission of the virus to other patients, health care workers and visitors.

All Member States are reminded to promptly assess and notify WHO of any new case of infection with MERS-CoV, along with information about potential exposures that may have resulted in infection and a description of the clinical course. Investigation into the source of exposure should promptly be initiated to identify the mode of exposure, so that further transmission of the virus can be prevented.

WHO does not advise special screening at points of entry with regard to this event nor does it currently recommend the application of any travel or trade restrictions.

WHO has convened an Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (IHR) to advise the Director-General on the status of the current situation. The Emergency Committee, which comprises international experts from all WHO Regions, unanimously advised that, with the information now available, and using a risk-assessment approach, the conditions for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) have not at present been met.

 http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_08_29/en/index.html

#MERS #Coronavirus Saudi Arabia - Full Disclosure? You Decide.

Excerpt, found posted here:

And tried for three days to get the hang of health affairs in the province of Hafr about the causes of the death of the young Fahd Al Sahli, the media spokesman Abdulaziz Anzi, referred to respond to the spokesman, the official of the ministry, Dr. Khalid Marghalani, and that the ministry is has the right answer for cases of Corona.

And has struggled over the past few days to get an answer from Dr. Marghalani by speaking parents of suspected cases and deaths, so Bmraselth via mobile phone and e-mail, but he did not respond, said the office manager that the declaration will be on the official website of the Ministry. 

also can not communicate with a member of the Scientific Committee to Corona's disease in the ministry, Dr. Abdullah Asiri, who did not respond to communications and inquiry messages.

#MERS #Coronavirus Saudi Arabia Batin Brother of Deceased Speaks

Translation - Excerpt:
August 29, 2013
He revealed بداح Sahli brother Fahd (the young deceased Pkorona

Batin) the presence of three cases between family members under suspicion, which is «the mother of the deceased sleeping in the King Khaled Hospital General digging subcontractors days ago, and the daughter of the deceased who lives with them in the same house, and a cousin of the deceased Sandman in the Northern Area Armed Forces Hospital.

He said the suffering began since the mid-month of Ramadan, almost, as the symptoms begin appearing on his brother, and in its entirety high temperature and pain in the respiratory system, noting that his brother was frequented much on the market, camels, and was staying long between camel, where he abused the sale and purchase Camel newly added «deceased told us that he had a young camel (Hashi) of patients and shows from his nose liquid like water, and it addressed before they show symptoms of the disease.

He بداح «My brother did not care about it, and it was reviewing dispensaries special and takes treatment and injection even intensified by the disease on the ninth of November, the day see the King Khaled Hospital General in Batin to be تنويمه, to die the next day on the tenth of November». Sahli said that King Khaled Hospital issued a report of the death, did not mention that the death was due to a virus Corona, but attributed to the presence of bacteria in the blood,

 The «Four days later we were surprised Bastdaaúna by King Khaled Hospital for Analyses of family members all of us, and we waited for more than five days for the results of the analysis after sending samples to a laboratory in Jeddah, to be let us know the existence of suspicion of the mother of the deceased, which worsened her condition was Tnoimha at King Khaled Hospital and kept in a special isolation, have also been suspected in the deceased's daughter and cousin who enter the Armed Forces Hospital in the North to remain in isolation after re-analysis of the deceased's daughter, his mother, his brother and his cousin again.

And tried for three days to get the hang of health affairs in the province of Hafr about the causes of the death of the young Fahd Al Sahli, the media spokesman Abdulaziz Anzi, referred to respond to the spokesman, the official of the ministry, Dr. Khalid Marghalani, and that the ministry is has the right answer for cases of Corona.

And has struggled over the past few days to get an answer from Dr. Marghalani by speaking parents of suspected cases and deaths, so Bmraselth via mobile phone and e-mail, but he did not respond, said the office manager that the declaration will be on the official website of the Ministry. 

also can not communicate with a member of the Scientific Committee to Corona's disease in the ministry, Dr. Abdullah Asiri, who did not respond to communications and inquiry messages.

http://qatifnews.com/index.php?show=news&action=article&id=51813

#MERS #Coronavirus Abu Dhabi Health Authority Issues Instructions To Pilgrams Going to Saudi Arabia for Hajj

August 29, 2013
Translation

Abu Dhabi (Union) - circulated Health Authority Abu Dhabi health institutions in the emirate tips WHO virus Corona new for those wishing to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj, which included instructions and precautions public health to travel and recommendations for pilgrims who have medical conditions, note that the United Arab Emirates free of the virus. 

organization provided tips for health care practitioners, and asked them where observing passengers who show symptoms of fever, cough or shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, or other symptoms that might indicate infection, you may be infected with Corona virus that causes AIDS Middle East respiratory, as well as passengers who traveled recently in the Middle East. 

in case if the diagnosis indicates the risk of virus infection Corona virus that causes AIDS Middle East respiratory need to implement prevention and control measures recommended by the organization or those specified in the instructions national, and refer the patient to the unit competent infectious diseases for more fact-situation. 

announced the Saudi Ministry of Health yesterday deaths were newly infected with "Corona" of a citizen in Batin at the age of "38" years, where was admitted to hospital and had suffered pneumonia sharp and failure respiratory, bringing the number of deaths to "42" deaths in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 
The ministry said in a statement to register new cases of HIV in the Medina of a resident at the age of "55 years" suffers a failure chronic kidney receiving treatment currently in intensive care. 
For tips directed the ministries of health, recommended the need to review Guidelines for surveillance and case definitions current to report cases in the WHO web site on HIV «Corona». 
Continued:  http://uaenews.cc/detail331140.html