First fatality in Algeria due to coronavirus infection
Thursday, June 12th, 2014 9:09:24 by Khalil Khan
Algerian Health Minister Abdelmalek Boudiaf, has confirmed the first death in the country of a man by corona virus infection, disease transmitting the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS -CoV), which causes coughing, fever, and in the worst, pneumonia ending in death of the infected. The virus has affected with particular virulence to Saudi Arabia, which has claimed the lives of over 280 people since it was detected in September 2012.
The patient, 59, had been hospitalized for 11 days in the hospital of the city of Tlemcen (west of Algiers) where Tuesday has died after a crash in their vital functions. The victim was infected by corona virus during pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. The Ministry of Health of Algeria has also reported that the second confirmed case in a region near Algiers, “progressing well “.
On 3 November, the first evidence of transmission of infection to humans camel were found when a man of 44, who had a nine camel herds, four of them with symptoms of nasal congestion and runny nose, entered the intensive care unit in Saudi Arabia Jeddah King Abdulaziz hospital with severe breathing problems; Died 15 days later.
Last week a study published by the New England Jorunal of Medicine confirmed the camel coronavirus transmission to humans and explain how these animals were the pathway for virus infection. Researchers made the discovery that the gene sequences observed between infected camel coronavirus and human were identical.
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Posted by Khalil Khan
on Jun 12 2014. Filed under Middle East.
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