At least 4 health workers are among 9 new MERS cases reported by Saudi Arabia over the past 2 days.
The trickle of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases continued today with a report of three more in Saudi Arabia.
The cases include one in Jeddah province and two in the Riyadh region, according to a translation of a Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) statement posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed a new fatal case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in a 64-year-old man from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The WHO has revised its guidance on studies to pinpoint how the virus is infecting people.
The WHO says it's not clear how the virus is jumping to humans, as Saudi Arabia reports a new case.
In an update today on the Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea, the World Health Organization (WHO) African Regional Office said in a statement that two more patients have died, pushing the number of fatalities to 62. The number of suspected cases remained at 86, for a case-fatality ratio of 72%.
In separate announcements today, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported two more Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of them fatal, raising the global MERS count to 200 cases.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) late on Mar 21 reported three cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections in adults from Riyadh.
A Saudi man who contracted Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in November after tending sick camels had a virus nearly identical to that found in one of his camels, suggesting he contracted the disease from them, according to a letter yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The 5 cases were in Kuwait, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia; 2 proved fatal; and 1 involved contact with camels.
