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Posted: March 28 2016 at 5:24pm |
Saudis report 3 MERS cases in three towns, 1 fatal
Saudi Arabian officials have reported three more MERS cases and one resulting death in the past 2 days, including a case in Buraydah, the site of a series of mostly healthcare-related cases this month. Yesterday the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) reported MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) cases in two elderly Saudi men. One patient is a 76-year-old in Buraydah who is in stable condition, and the other was a 78-year-old in Ha'il who died of the disease. The Buraydah man is listed as a household contact of another MERS patient; his illness raises the number of MERS cases in the city since Mar 3 to 31. The source of exposure for the Ha'il man is under investigation, the MOH said. Neither man was a healthcare worker. Buraydah is in north-central Saudi Arabia, and Ha'il lies in an adjoining province to the west. Today the MOH reported that a 65-year-old Saudi man in Turbah, a town southeast of Mecca, is in critical condition with MERS. He had contact with camels and is not a healthcare worker. The new cases boost the nation's MERS count to 1,360 cases, including 580 deaths, and 16 patients still being treated. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2016/03/news-scan-mar-28-2016 |
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