Saudi Arabia - A report that a medical team has discovered a respiratory virus that infects mostly children

[sharon sanders]

machine translation

Medical team discovers a virus 'Boca' after injury 22% of children Taif

07/01/2013 - ISSUE 400



Succeeded for the first time in Saudi medical team at the University of Taif and Children's Hospital in the governorate of the discovery and identification of HIV (Boca) is responsible for respiratory infections in 22% of children Taif, specifically the age group from the age of 4 months to 10 years. And managed the medical team consisting of Dr. Ahmed Sayed Abdel Moneim, Dr. Hamid Al-Ghamdi in collaboration with Dr. Matar al-Maliki of Children's Hospital in Taif to identify the genotype of the virus in order to reach a vaccine for this virus so that they can avoid these infections, especially in young children, and enables the medical team from determine the prevalence of the virus among children in the city of Taif which amounted to 22%. The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Adnan Slimani the importance of this discovery and the follow-up since a period of time.

http://www.alsharq.net.sa/2013/01/07/664603

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Re: Saudi Arabia - A report that a medical team has discovered a respiratory virus that infects mostly children

It appears this is a report of human bocavirus infections, a common non-flu cause of seasonal ARI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocavirus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_bocavirus

While this may be the first report of such infections from Saudi Arabia, it seems these viruses are fairly common worldwide.