Saturday, December 14, 2013

Saudi Arabia: Another MERS death?


Saudi Arabia: Another MERS death? HT: Croft.

The #Corona hashtag has a couple of recent tweets reporting the death of "Fawaz Cruiser," the 37-year-old in Al-Jouf, but I can't find a link to any Saudi news stories confirming the case. I'll keep looking; in the meantime, a new report in Okaz.com.sa offers a rare Saudi overview of MERS: Riyadh topping Corona injuries and deaths in the East. Excerpt from a Google translation:
Riyadh topped in the number of injuries Corona virus, while topped East in the number of deaths, as the number of injuries to yesterday, according to the Ministry of Health to 132 cases, of which 55 have died since the discovery of the first case in September 1433 AH. 
And the monitoring of «Okaz» that the number of cases recorded for the Riyadh region in the health records reached 32 cases, while deaths 7 cases, and recorded East 27 cases and 12 deaths, while recorded Hollow cases of injury, and Qassim deaths, and Jeddah cases of injury and two deaths, and Taif cases injury and deaths, while Medina recorded six cases and two deaths, while recorded Batin 9 cases and death cases, and 7 cases in Asir and deaths.
It turned out that more cases that have been injury and death were for seniors who are over the fifth decade, those who already have chronic diseases, and that most of the cases that have been injured have been cases of mixing of injuries confirmed, which boosted the chances of transmission of the virus to healthy people. 
As it turns out monitoring of cases that have been the biggest case of death was 83 years old and the other from the East of Riyadh, and the case of the youngest child two years of age from Jeddah. 
In a related development, said the Ministry of Health that he found cases of injuries Corona that most cases have a chronic disease leading to weakness of the patient's immune, as he studied the cases show the existence of indicators for the transmission of the virus to the contacts close, but the mode of transmission and the source of the virus is known to now, Work is still ongoing to further research and survey and study to reach certain facts about the virus.

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