Coronavirus MERS Killed 5 More in Saudi Arabia

Five more deaths were added to the list of 168 dead in Saudi Arabia for the coronavirus that causes MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), as reported by the Ministry of Health. Since the disease first appeared, in 2012, there have been 529 cases in 18 countries, with special emphasis on the Arabian peninsula. In the United States, where alert was high just over a week ago before the first case of MERS (a traveler from Saudi Arabia), the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed a third infected. This is a person who had contact with the first patient, so this is the first transmission from person to person MERS occurred in U.S.

Two men aged 67 and 55, respectively, and a woman of 80 have died in Jeddah, the economic capital of the country, where the multiplication of cases of infection have caused the dismissal of the director of Rei Fahd Hospital. Other men, one 71 and one 77, have died in Riyadh and Medina, respectively, reports AFP.

The new U.S. case, whose health condition is not serious, is detected by blood tests during scan performed by doctors in the vicinity of the first infected. The contact between these two people came before the first being diagnosed. The fact that the latter did not show the symptoms associated with the disease suggests to experts, provisionally, your body could develop antibodies against the pathogen.

Coronavirus MERS, for which there is no vaccine or specific treatment, causes in affected lung infection with cough, fever and difficulty breathing. “I do not know where the virus came from, nor do we know exactly how it spreads. However, it is likely to have originated from an animal source,” says the CDC, it has not done in this case recommendations for people to change their travel plans to the most affected areas by MERS. Almost 30 % of people infected with coronavirus have died since made its appearance in Saudi Arabia.

The World Health Organization (WHO) last week refused to declare a public health emergency of global reach. But WHO acknowledged that the gravity of the situation “has increased in terms of impact on public health.”

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