MERS-CoV, Saudi Arabia: Investigations of Jeddah human case (MoH, November 11 2013): Animal source possibly found - camel

[Giuseppe]

[Source: Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, full page in Arabic: (LINK). Automatic translation.]


MERS-CoV, Saudi Arabia: Investigations of Jeddah human case

Nov 11 ?13


Order from the Ministry of Health on the lookout for everyone on the latest developments of the Novel Coronavirus that causes Middle East respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and reference to the statement of the Ministry of Health, the former regarding recording case in Jeddah, a citizen at the age of 43 years and who is still receiving treatment at a hospital the province, and within the work of Investigation epidemiological played by the ministry in a scientific and systematic lost ministry has examined contacts of infected according to scientific standards followed, as the ministry in its quest to find out and investigate the source of infection to take samples from the environment surrounding the patient including a range of ? in a barn belonging to the patient, has shown a positive ? to the initial laboratory tests for the virus.

The Ministry is currently in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and the scientific to confirm tests and virus isolation and compared in terms of genetic makeup with patient, and, if proven match the virus infected the patient and phrases it discovers for the first time in the world and is open to know the source of this virus and will, God willing, in the knowledge of the world of epidemiological disease and its modes of transmission.


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[Giuseppe]

Re: MERS-CoV, Saudi Arabia: Investigations of Jeddah human case (MoH, November 11 2013): Animal source possibly found

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[Source: Straits Times, full page: (LINK).]


Saudi says first camel tests positive for MERS virus

November 12, 2013 12:27 AM


RIYADH (AFP) - The Saudi government said on Monday that a camel has tested positive for MERS, in the first case of an animal infected with the coronavirus that has killed 64 people worldwide.


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[Shiloh]

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Source: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304868404579192002524048162

MERS Virus Is Found in Saudi Camel
Discovery Yields Clues Into Animal Hosts and Transmission
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Ellen Knickmeyer
Nov. 11, 2013 3:32 p.m. ET

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia?Medical investigators for the first time have confirmed the MERS coronavirus in a camel, one belonging to a Saudi man also ill with the new virus, providing a critical clue into the virus's animal hosts and transmission, a top Saudi health official and an international disease expert said on Monday.

The MERS coronavirus, which has sickened 153 people and killed 64 since it was identified in September 2012, was found in an ailing camel in a barn belonging to the 43-year-old man in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Saudi and international teams confirmed the virus on the man and the camel through tests that pinpointed the presence of the virus itself, rather than antibodies to it as some previous, inconclusive tests elsewhere had done, Ziad Memish, the kingdom's deputy health minister, said on Sunday. He called the discovery "significant."...

 

[sharon sanders]

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Re: MERS-CoV, Saudi Arabia: Investigations of Jeddah human case (MoH, November 11 2013): Animal source possibly found

KSA MERS Investigation: Testing The Beast, Not The Beauty

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UPDATED: Helen Branswellnow has the story, and provides additional details in :
Saudi officials find camel infected with MERS; owned by man who had disease
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The Saudi Ministry of Health has a brief, and not easy to decipher, update on a recent MERS-CoV case that indicates they are investigating the possibility that the patient acquired the virus from an animal exposure. I?ve the machine translation below, but it requires a bit of explanation ? particularly the part that reads:

. . . investigate the source of infection to take samples from the environment surrounding the patient including a range of beauty in a barn belonging to the patient . . .
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This becomes clearer once you know that the arabic word for `beauty? is ?jamaal? (الجمال) which in turn, is taken from ?jml?, the word for `camel?. So machine translation software tends to translate the word for camel as `beauty?.

Ah, the things you pick up as a blogger. But I digress . . .
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What we have here is not a barn full of beauties (well, I suppose that depends upon the eye of the beholder), but rather, a barn full of camels. One of which, according to this report, appears to have tested positive to the MERS Coronavirus.

Health: Open a new knowledge of the source of the virus (sk)
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Order from the Ministry of Health on the lookout for everyone on the latest developments of the virus Corona virus that causes AIDS Middle East respiratory MERS-CoV and reference to the statement of the Ministry of Health, the former regarding recording cases of HIV Coruna in Jeddah, a citizen at the age of 43 years and who is still receiving treatment at a hospital the province, and within the work of Investigation epidemiological played by the ministry in a scientific and systematic lost ministry has examined contacts of infected according to scientific standards followed, as the ministry in its quest to find out and investigate the source of infection to take samples from the environment surrounding the patient including a range of beauty in a barn belonging to the patient, has shown a positive beauty to the initial laboratory tests for the virus.

The Ministry is currently in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and the scientific to confirm tests and virus isolation and compared in terms of genetic makeup with HIV patient, and, if proven match the virus infected the patient and phrases it discovers for the first time in the world and is open to know the source of this virus and will, God willing, in the knowledge of the world of epidemiological disease and its modes of transmission.
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You will probably recall that last August we saw results of camel testing in Oman, and other areas of the Arabian Peninsula (but not in Saudi Arabia) showing a high incidence of MERS-like antibodies (see FAO: FAQ On The Lancet MERS-CoV ? Camel Study). Whether is was, in fact, the MERS-Cov strain that has infected 150 people in the Middle East over the past year remains unproven.

We will eagerly await the genetic analysis of both the patient?s virus, and the virus isolated from his camel, to learn if both viruses are the same. This is not a slam dunk. But if further test results show a high degree of similarity between them, it could be a game changer.

Stay tuned.

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[sharon sanders]

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Apparently Saudi government is testing 7 other camels in the same barn, but not random sampling camels in the country.



machine translation


"Agriculture" isolate 7 beauty of suspected bird flu "Corona"
Monthly: We will not examine "beauty" randomly until we are sure it is the source of the virus
Fears that camels become a mediator in the transmission of the virus? (Home)
Fears that camels become a mediator in the transmission of the virus? (Home)

Riyadh, Jeddah: Nayef Usaymi, congratulations Buqami the 2013-11-12 11:50 PM
After confirming the injury a beauty virus Corona the day before yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture for isolating 7 Ebel again after suspected bird flu in order to while making sure her through the necessary tests.
said Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture for Research and Agricultural Development, a spokesman for the ministry Eng Jaber Monthly that the Ministry of Health is The first injury was discovered by a beauty in one barn containing 8 camels, located south of Jeddah neighborhood winery. The monthly that has been treated with such beauty isolating infected animal first, and then isolate the camel suspected bird flu and so ensure safety of the virus, indicating that a team from the ministries of agriculture, health, the daily and periodically withdraw blood samples for Ebel eight and avoided them, isolate, isolation, completely humans and animals and control.
and conduct revealed randomly on camels in the coming period, said Monthly: I do not anticipate events, We will make sure first that the camels are the main source of transmission of the virus and then there will be action taken by the ministry in coordination with the other parties to the camels.
his part, said Assistant Undersecretary for livestock in the Ministry of Agriculture Engineer Sami Ben Solomon Alnhat's "home" The Ministry of Health is primarily responsible for this, because it relates to human beings, so they must make sure the virus and make necessary analysis, while The role of the Ministry of Agriculture in the development of camel suspected bird flu in an isolated place and follow veterinarians have sampling and make sure the owner and procedures pending completion of the procedures and Ministry of Health.
, the Ministry of Health had announced the day before yesterday they discovered were newly infected with "Corona" However, the situation is not between humans, but for "camel", and this was considered by the ministry groundbreaking to find out the source of the virus that causes respiratory syndrome Middle East that resulted in the death of 53 cases in the Kingdom so far, while did not know the true source of the virus and the studies have been conducted on bats and camels, which numbers in the Kingdom with 900 thousand

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