statcounter

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Qatar confirm they are free of the SARS virus



While Doha denied the spread of any infectious viruses in Qatar, after the announcement of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Qatari citizen infected people like virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) after returning from performing Umrah in Saudi Arabia at the end of the last month of Ramadan .. Saudi authorities announced that it was monitoring the situation closely following the death of two people and wounding a third, a rare form of flu is similar to the SARS virus with the Hajj season approaches, stressing that it is limited to only two deaths in three months.
Denied, Director of Public Health Department at the Supreme Council of Health in Qatar's Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani, the spread of any infectious viruses in Qatar. And confirmed during a press conference held the day before yesterday, it has been put on high alert monitoring system of infectious virus in Qatar (Surrey) in cooperation with the U.S. NAMRU lab to ensure follow up on any new cases may be suspected to be infected with the diseaseHe added that «not yet expert discovers the reasons for the spread of the disease.