Health announces the death of the citizen "Koruna"
06/03/2013 - 21:15:00
The Health Ministry announced on the status of the death of Corona virus citizen and a hospital in Qassim and when the situation suspected samples were taken and examined Kingdom laboratories also been sent to a European reference laboratories and the result was positive for the new corona virus.
The Ministry of Health of all precautionary measures by routers local and international scientific contacts of the infected died sampling of them to see if there was injury, including where this case is the case number (14) globally and (7) locally.
The Ministry indicated that it inform the World Health Organization (WHO) in any case arise, according to the system of the International Health Regulations 2005 and the Kingdom is committed to do so.
The Committee stressed the national scientific infectious diseases and whose membership includes a selection of consultants and specialists from all sectors of government health that virus Koruna is one viruses that infect the respiratory tract, where more than 15% of the influenza viruses that infect humans is considered a new style and can be transmitted from one person to another in cases rare and limited so it is not a concern for public health. http://www.alyaum.com/News/art/74398.html