WHO has been informed of an additional six cases of MERS-CoV infection in Saudi Arabia.

WHO has been informed of an additional six cases of MERS-CoV infection in Saudi Arabia. HT: Croft.

WHO has now published Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) - update. Excerpt:

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

The six new patients are from Riyadh region with ages from 14 to 79 years old, of which three are women and three men. The dates of onset of the patients range from 15 to 26 September 2013. One patient has mild symptoms while the others are hospitalized. Three patients are contacts of previously confirmed cases with MERS-CoV, two are reported to have had no exposure to animals or a confirmed case, and there is no information on exposure of one patient.

Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 136 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including 58 deaths.

I hope we will soon get some supplementary information on these new cases. What WHO and the KSA MOH have given us is frustratingly sketchy.