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SARS-like cases rise to 40 - Healthcare cluster

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    Posted: May 15 2013 at 7:29am

SARS-Like Virus: Hospital Health Workers Among Those Infected in Saudi Arabia’s Six New Cases

On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia added six new cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus in its Eastern Province, where two of those infected were hospital healthcare workers, immediately creating anxieties that hospitals are no longer even safe places to go to in times of medical distress.

The two sick healthcare workers were identified as nurses. Their hospital affiliations were not revealed.

"We would like to point out that two new confirmed cases of Coronavirus have been detected among health practitioners in the Eastern Region, and they are currently still under the medical observation receiving the proper treatment," the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a brief statement.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) noted all six cases were part of a hospital-centered cluster in the country's Eastern province.

From the other four cases, one patient has died, two remain in critical condition, while one has recovered, the WHO said.

With the addition of the six cases, the global count of nCoV cases is now recorded at 40, where 20 have died.

On Sunday, France reported its second infected case, who contracted the disease after sharing a hospital room with France's first infected, who recently travelled in the Middle East.

France's second confirmed SARS-like infection affected shares of European airliners as investors fretted the disease could lead to another global outbreak, similar to that in 2002 and 2003, that could scare air travelers.

Earlier, shares in IAG, parent of British Airways; Lufthansa, Europe's second-biggest airline; and Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost airline dropped 4.6 per cent, 3.5 per cent and 0.3 per cent, respectively.

"A more developed outbreak could significantly hit short-term travel demand," Damian Brewer of RBC Capital Markets in London was quoted by Irish Independent.

"Any sustained dent in travel demand could also diminish cash flows and increase financial stress risk."

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/467656/20130515/sars-saudi-hospital-france-europe-iag-lufthansa.htm#.UUM9rUrdOsc

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Although we're up to 40 cases, it seems like there are quite a few more between reports of other healthcare workers under observation, and reports of several infected students, etc...  Containment has definitely be lost. It's just a matter of how far it will spread and if/when it burns itself out.  Corona is the frontrunner to causing the next pandemic at this point.  Of course h7n9 is capable of almost anything being that it's a flu bug and we still have no idea what's happening in China.

Anyway, with a fatality rate of 50% with the new SARS, if it ignites like its predecessor did 10 years ago, the situation will be quite different and harder to contain globally.

 
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So it was four new cases and another two healthcare workers yesterday. Seems to be accelerating - I wonder if Saudi will shut down the media. They probably don't have the infrastructure to do it like China, but I'm sure they'll try if they garner enough negative attention from the international community.
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Well, so far Saudi has done the best with regard to transparency out of all of them and let's hope they don't start to slip.  If they're in a grim situation, they may need all the help they can get at this point. 
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sThis is true SARS, when people who are non lung patients take on the symtoms and it spreads to other non lung patients.
 
 
 
 
 
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