Saudi flight boy in fever scare

Mary Ann Benitez
Monday, October 08, 2012

A four-year-old boy who came down with severe respiratory syndrome after arriving from Saudi Arabia is being tested for a novel coronavirus that has infected two people in the Middle East.
The Centre for Health Protection said last night it received a report from Ruttonjee Hospital yesterday. The boy arrived from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia with his father last Wednesday.
He went to Ruttonjee's accident and emergency department yesterday with fever, a cough and vomiting, and was transferred to Queen Mary Hospital for isolation, where his condition is stable.
Hong Kong has been on alert since the World Health Organization said the novel coronavirus - which belongs to the same family as the coronavirus that spawned the 2003 outbreak of Severe  http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=11&art_id=127103&sid=37847183&con_type=1&d_str=20121008&fc=10