Saudi Arabia: First camel case "tested positive" for MERS.

Monday, November 11, 2013

Saudi Arabia: First camel case "tested positive" for MERS.

Saudi Arabia: First camel case "tested positive" for MERS. HT: Croft.

Thanks to Makoto for tweeting the link to this AFP report in L'Orient-Le Jour.com: Saudi announces the first camel case "tested positive" coronavirus MERS. A Google translation

The Saudi Ministry of Health announced Monday that a camel had been "tested positive" coronavirus MERS, the first case of infection by the virus that has killed 64 people in the world.

The animal was "tested positive in preliminary laboratory tests, "the ministry said in a statement published by the official news agency SPA. The authorities explained that the camel belonged to a holder of MERS capita.

I think that last sentence means the camel belonged to a MERS patient.

Via the Ministry of Health's Arabic corona page, some actual news: Health: open new to see the source of the virus (sk). A Google translation:

Order from the Ministry of Health on the lookout for everyone on the latest developments of the virus Corona virus that causes AIDS Middle East respiratory MERS-CoV and reference to the statement of the Ministry of Health, the former regarding recording cases of HIV Coruna in Jeddah, a citizen at the age of 43 years and who is still receiving treatment at a hospital the province, and within the work of Investigation epidemiological played by the ministry in a scientific and systematic lost ministry has examined contacts of infected according to scientific standards followed, as the ministry in its quest to find out and investigate the source of infection to take samples from the environment surrounding the patient including a range of beauty in a barn belonging to the patient, has shown a positive beauty to the initial laboratory tests for the virus.

In other words, a camel ("beauty") belonging to the 43-year-old MERS case tested positive for MERS also. The owner's case was announced on November 7, so the Saudis moved pretty quickly on testing the man's animals.

Update: Branswell: Saudi officials find camel infected with MERS; owned by man who had disease.

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Always On WatchNovember 12, 2013 at 6:26 AM
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