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Saudi?s MERS Concerns Grow as Hajj Season Approaches

Shiloh

Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/middleeast/2013/09/02/saudis-mers-concerns-grow-as-hajj-season-approaches/

September 2, 2013, 12:52 PM
Saudi?s MERS Concerns Grow as Hajj Season Approaches

Saudi Arabia continues to report sporadic new cases and deaths from a lethal new coronavirus, as hajj season in October ? when the kingdom expects more than 3 million pilgrims from 187 countries ?- approaches.

While the World Health Organization and most ? but not all ? international disease experts interviewed generally have commended the measures Saudi Arabia has put in place since the virus surfaced last year, interviews with visitors to the kingdom underscore what seems to be a gap in WHO-recommended health measures ? public notices in Saudi Arabia of the disease, and of basic precautions against it...
 
Re: Saudi?s MERS Concerns Grow as Hajj Season Approaches

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Injuries "Corona" .. And mortality Medina concern with the 8 approach of the Hajj



HIV infections rise to 104
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Ahmed Abdel-Salam - East Gate

With the approach of the pilgrimage season, it seemed the virus, "Corona" more aggressive and deadly, particularly during the past three weeks, during which he was registered 30 HIV infection in Saudi Arabia, 8 of whom died, while the virus appeared for the first time in Medina.

The Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, recording 4 new cases of HIV Coruna in Riyadh, after the boom of the announcement of recording 4 injuries in Medina and Riyadh, which raises the number of cases of HIV infection since the announcement of his appearance in September / September last year to 104 case.

The ministry has revealed the first recording of HIV infection in Medina, a resident of the end of August / August, was the announcement of his death last Saturday, as recording the second event of the death Corona virus in Medina in the next day.

And raises the recording deaths and injuries virus in Medina, along with previous registration of the virus in the province of Taif, about 68 kilometers from Mecca may raise fears and concerns with the approach of the pilgrimage season.

It also appeared in Al-Ahsa is in the way of coming to the Kingdom of land for Umrah and Hajj (GCC), in Jeddah, which is in the way of arrivals by air to perform Hajj raises another concern.

The Saudi Health Minister Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabiah has announced the middle of last month, end-of-Ramadan without recording any case Corona infection among pilgrims and visitors in Mecca and Medina.

This was seen as a statement reassuring message with the approach of the Hajj season, especially that Saudi Arabia during Ramadan, receives the second-largest crowd in terms of numbers after the crowd that witnessed during the pilgrimage.

The Ministry of Health announced earlier in the health requirements to be met in the coming for Umrah and Hajj 1434 AH, in the framework of precautionary procedures for the new corona virus disease.

The ministry recommended to postpone the performance of Umrah and Hajj this year for the elderly and people with chronic diseases as patients heart, kidney, respiratory, diabetes, and HIV patients congenital and acquired, in addition to the ill tumors, as well as pregnant women and children.

Since its discovery in the world in September / September last year were registered 129 cases of coronavirus infection around the world, including 104 in Saudi Arabia alone.

The total of the deceased with the virus in the world 56 of them 47 in Saudi Arabia, and most of the deaths were of people over forty years of age.

The virus "Corona" or the so-called severe acute respiratory syndrome, one of the viruses that infect the respiratory tract, does not yet exist at the level of the world accurate information about the source of the virus and its modes of transmission, as there is no preventive vaccination or antibiotic to treat it.

http://www.al-sharq.com/Detail/news/110/تقارير/303603/قلق-من-شراسة--كورونا--مع-اقتراب-موسم-الحج


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We have a record of 5 cases in Medina and 2 deaths. This is from a quick look at our list and not a comprehensive analysis:

#105 - Man, 55, with kidney failure, hospitalized in ICU - Medina, Madinah province, Saudi Arabia (SA83)*

#119 - Age 56, health care worker from Medina, Saudi Arabia Death

#124 - Man, 74, contact of previous case, Medina - Saudi Arabia Death

#125 - Age 22, asymptomatic, Medina - Saudi Arabia

#126 - Age 24, asymptomatic, health care worker, Medina - Saudi Arabia


* News articles that this man died, not confirmed by the MoH yet: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=508445&postcount=4
 
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