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Posted: July 08 2016 at 12:22pm |
MERS infects another in Saudi Arabia; WHO hints at 2 more clusters
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV infection, involving an 80-year-old woman from Jeddah who is a household contact of an earlier confirmed patient, and the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday filled in more details about 13 recently reported cases from the country, 5 linked to a Riyadh hospital outbreak and at least 3 that appear to be linked to small clusters in Jeddah and Najran. The woman who is Saudi Arabia's latest MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) patient is in critical condition. Her illness lifts the country's MERS total to 1,424 cases, 601 of them fatal. Fifteen people are still being treated for their infections. Meanwhile, the WHO's report covers cases reported by Saudi Arabia between Jun 21 and Jun 30. The five patients linked to the Riyadh hospital outbreak were asymptomatic and identified through contact tracing. They include three healthcare workers, a hospitalized patient, and a man who was exposed to the hospital patient. The WHO's report also notes one of the three Jeddah patients is a 57-year-old woman who had been exposed to an earlier confirmed case-patient, a 66-year-old man whose illness source is still under investigation. Hinting at another possible hospital cluster, this time in Najran, the WHO said one of the patients in its latest update is a 28-year-old male healthcare worker who had been exposed to an earlier confirmed case, a 44-year-old man whose source of the virus was unclear and is in critical condition and on a ventilator. Of the other patients, four are from cities in different parts of the country: Al Aqiq, Dammam, Al Aflaj, and Al Hofuf. Sources of infection aren't known for three of the cases, but the case from Al Aflaj involves a 75-year-old man who had frequent contact with camels and often drinks raw camel milk. The WHO said it has now received reports of 1,782 MERS-CoV cases, at least 634 of them fatal. Jul 7 Saudi MOH statement http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2016/07/news-scan-jul-07-2016 |
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