Seven dead from meningitis outbreak..

Seven dead from meningitis outbreak... amid fears THOUSANDS at risk across 23 states

• Two more deaths have been reported in Michigan, bringing the total death toll to seven
• 64 people have been sickened in nine states - Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio
• Massachusetts company who made product has shut down operations

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 22:13 EST, 6 October 2012 | UPDATED: 08:24 EST, 7 October 2012

The death toll has risen to seven from a 'rapidly evolving outbreak' of rare fungal meningitis that has been linked to spinal steroid injections, sparking fear as new cases have been reported in nine U.S. states. 

The potential scope of the meningitis outbreak, that has sickened 64 people, widened dramatically as health officials warned that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients who received steroid back injections in 23 states could be at risk.

The outbreak of the disease, known as aspergillus meningitis, is caused by a fungus found in a spinal steroid injections, a fairly common treatment used to relieve back pain, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration....

Beware: Health officials warned that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients who received steroid back injections in 23 states could be at risk (stock photo)

The caretaker: Diana Reed dedicated her life to helping underprivileged children before a routine medical procedure infected her with a rare fungal meningitis

Source: The outbreak of the deadly form of meningitis was traced to St Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee

The injectable steroids responsible for Reed's death were produced by New England Compounding Center, a specialized pharmacy in Framingham, Massachusetts. The company has shut down operations and said it is working with regulators to identify the source of the infection.

It is not clear how many patients received tainted injections, or even whether everyone who got one will get sick.

So far, 64 people in nine states - Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio - have contracted fungal meningitis, and five have died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In an alarming indication that the outbreak could get a lot bigger, Massachusetts health officials said the pharmacy involved, the New England Compounding Center of Framingham, has recalled three lots consisting of a total of 17,676 single-dose vials of the steroid, preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate.

No solicitors: Specialized pharmacy New England Compounding Center has hidden from the public as its steroids are linked to multiple deaths and critical infections

An unknown number of those vials reached 75 clinics and other facilities in 23 states between July and September, federal health officials said. Several hundred of the vials, maybe more, have been returned unused, one Massachusetts official said.

However many other vials were used. At one clinic in Evansville, Indiana, more than 500 patients got shots from the suspect lots, officials said. At two clinics in Tennessee, more than 900 patients received them.

The incubation period before symptoms appear is 28 days, and its almost certain more cases will be reported say health officials, who are now calling this a national health crisis. 

STATE-BY-STATE BREAKDOWN

Tennessee: The initial outbreak site with a suspected 16 cases, two of whom are in critical condition. Three others have already died.

North Carolina: The second state to report infection with one case found at an unidentified clinic.

Florida: Only two cases have been reported but health officials fear more may come forward.

Virginia: One person has died from fungal meningitis and three more cases are still being treated.

Maryland: Seven medical clinics in Maryland pulled their stock of a questionable steroid after one person died and two more cases were reported.

Indiana: At least five people in Indiana are sick with fungal meningitis, with no fatalities yet reported

Michigan: There are at least eight confirmed cases of meningitis in Michigan, including two deaths

Minnesota: Fungal meningitis has been diagnosed in two women hospitalized in Minnesota 

Ohio: Health officials reported Saturday of a 65-year-old man being treated for the meningitis after receiving the steroid

Unlike the more common viral and bacterial meningitis, fungal meningitis is not contagious. It is an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. 

Symptoms include a severe headache, nausea, fever, and dizziness.

The first patients identified in Tennessee experienced slurred speech, and difficulty walking and urinating.

The pharmacy voluntarily recalled three lots of the steroid Methylprednisolone Acetate on September 26 according to the FDA. The drug is primarily used to relieve back pain. 

The drug was administered to patients in their late 40s to early 80s.

Tennessee's S. Thomas Hospital, ground zero for the outbreak with a suspected 15 cases as of Wednesday with two in critical condition, reported having 2,000 vials of the steroid in stock before the threat was discovered. 

'Some are doing well and improving. Some are very ill - very, very seriously ill and may die,' Tennessee health official Dr. David Reagan said.

In Tennessee alone roughly 1,000 people were administered the steroid. 

The link between the injections and the meningitis was discovered by Tennessee physician April Pettit, who found the initial cases were all people who'd recently received an epidural.

Officials are still investigating how the steroid ...

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Egypt- Discovery of bird flu market Ashmun

The Directorate of Veterinary Medicine Menoufia, Sunday morning discovery of a new focus of bird flu market Ashmun public. has campaigns organized by the Directorate Bokhadd samples from birds for analysis through the villages, and centers to maintain and samples were the result is positive, which means the disease. currently being executions infected birds, and the burial of health through cleansing market, and take a sample of the contacts have to be analyzed to make sure illness or not. http://gate.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/35/258687/%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1/%D8%B8%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D8%A5%D9%86%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9.aspx

Discovery focus positive for bird flu Menoufia

Discovery focus positive for bird flu Menoufia

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discovered the committee supervising the bird flu Menofia a positive foci of HIV infection, following the withdrawal of a random sampling of a public markets Ashmoun center.  showed results of the analysis laboratory that conducted laboratory National Veterinary poultry production agriculture ministry a positive samples drawn and domestic poultry bird flu virus, and immediately moved to the problem of the directorates of health, agriculture and veterinary medicine and the local unit of the center and the city Ashmun to take preventive measures and actions to address HIV and burying infected poultry quicklime.  http://www.akhbarelyom.org.eg/news76380_33.aspx

Egypt- New #H5N1 outbreak suspected

The emergence of a new focus of bird flu Menoufia

Managed Directorate of Veterinary Medicine Menoufia discovery of a new focus of bird flu market Ashmun GP, and was immediately taken it samples from birds for analysis, through campaigns organized by the Directorate villages and centers the province and the result of samples positive disease. operations are presently carried culling infected and buried roads health with cleansing the market, and take a sample of her contacts analyzed to make sure the illness or not.   http://www2.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=808457

Up to 1,000 Minnesota patients linked to meningitis outbreak; no reports in Coulee Region

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Health estimates that as many as 1,000 patients may have received contaminated steroids that have been implicated in a national meningitis outbreak, but no patients in the Coulee Region have been exposed.

Two Twin Cities-based health care groups used steroids from the same product lots that have been linked to the deaths of five patients and 30 illnesses in six states.

So far Minnesota has not identified any cases of fungal meningitis related to the outbreak.

Officials at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center and Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse and Winona Health in Winona checked their pharmaceutical supplies and determined they never had that brand of steroid in their facilities, spokesmen said.

Officials with Medical Advanced Pain Specialists and the Minnesota Surgery Center are scrambling to contact all of their patients who received the potentially contaminated steroid injections. Medical Advanced Pain Specialists has locations in E http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/up-to-minnesota-patients-linked-to-meningitis-outbreak-no-reports/article_3045d8fe-0f74-11e2-bf70-001a4bcf887a.html?comment_form=true

Maryland braces for more meningitis cases

Outbreak widens across the country

The potential scope of the meningitis outbreak that has killed at least five people widened Thursday as health officials warned that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients who got steroid back injections in 23 states could be at risk.

By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun
[B]8:15 p.m. EDT, October 5, 2012[/B]

Maryland could see new cases of meningitis for a month or more as health officials continue to search for new and past cases of the disease, which has sickened 50 people in several states who received injections of a tainted steroid.

[B]In the cases health officials are already aware of, the incubation period for the infections has been between two days and four weeks, but it's possible the period could be even longer for some, said Dr. Lucy Wilson, chief of Maryland's infection preventi[/B]on and outbreak response program. Health officials are basing their estimate on the existing cases, but it could change, Wilson said.    http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-meningitis-more-20121005,0,4173607.story?

Number of U.S. meningitis cases rises to 50 in deadly outbreak

Fri, 5 Oct 2012 23:18 GMT
Source: Reuters // Reuters

* Vials of steroids linked to outbreak sent to 23 states

* Doctor urges that recipients be tracked down immediately

By Tim Ghianni

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct 5 (Reuters) - The number of people stricken with a rare form of meningitis linked to steroid injections rose to 50 in seven U.S. states, authorities said on Friday, in a widening outbreak that has killed at least five people.

Michigan said it had confirmed six cases of fungal meningitis, the seventh state to report people falling ill after receiving the injections, mainly for back pain.

Other states with cases are Tennessee, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina and Indiana.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported 47 cases of meningitis on Friday, while Michigan reported an additional two cases and North Carolina one not included in the CDC count. That brought the national total to 50, compared with 35 on Thursday...
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Ebola: a virus, two epidemics

05.10.2012 | BY AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY

Ebola: a virus, two epidemics (Alfonso Verdú, MSF emergency coordinator)

Kagadi Hospital (Uganda) where MSF launched an emergency intervention to fight Ebola. © MSF

Roger had Ebola. Besides treating him and strengthen him so he could fight a virus for which we have no vaccine, it was essential to keep spirits high and to give comprehensive assistance . To do this we videotaped messages crowd of family and friends, some dancing, others encouraging him, which will then project from the visitor's area on a large screen. At the end of the corridor we could see his huge smile that illuminated the flag of confirmed cases. A projection joined some of the people who were under our monitoring and retained the strength to get out of bed and go to the corridor that gives the visiting area. Mom or La Petite Charlotte Louise received the news that they would be forthcoming. 

Emotional support to patients and their close circles affects their general welfare . That is why from the beginning we designed the Ebola Treatment Center (ETC) in a way that will have a series of open spaces where family and friends can look out to talk to them, guaranteeing a safe distance. A simple forecast whose consequences are extraordinary: the center, inhabited by real astronauts (due to the protective equipment that must be used) suddenly becomes human; families who thought their loved ones would be isolated from life, suddenly interact with them, the community, where it was rumored that whoever comes out alive with Ebola, is informed that there still occur sometimes miracles.  http://www.msf.es/blog/africa-no-es-un-pais/2012/ebola-un-virus-dos-epidemias-por-alfonso-verdu-coordinador-emergencia

Arabian Coronavirus: Plot Thickens But Virus Lies Low

It now appears that the new coronavirus found on the Arabian Peninsula is more widespread than initially thought, even though only two people are known to have gotten sick from it.

At first it seemed likely that the two known cases of illness from the new cousin-of-SARS virus may have been exposed in or near the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast.

But now it's pretty certain that a 49-year-old Qatari man who had traveled to Jeddah last month didn't pick up the virus there. Investigators say he probably got infected after he returned home to Qatar, a tiny Persian Gulf kingdom 825 miles to the east.

A report in the journal Eurosurveillance traces the man's movements, which hadn't been publicly known before.

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A timeline for the case of a Qatari man sickened by a new virus.

"It is likely that the patient's infection was acquired in Qatar, as he was in Qatar for the 16 days prior to the onset of his most recent respiratory illness in September," write researchers from the U.K.'s Health Protection Agency and co-workers.

 

The man remains on life support in a London hospital after he got infected last month by the previously unknown coronavirus. He can't breathe on his own, so requires treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, basically an artificial lung. He has also suffered kidney failure.

The other known victim of the coronavirus was a 60-year-old Saudi man who died back in June.

The Qatari man, whose identity hasn't been disclosed, suffered a respiratory illness while he was traveling in Saudi Arabia. But, investigators learned, he recovered from that cold 16 days before he fell ill again, that tim..

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FDA expands recall list of tainted drugs as meningitis outbreak grows to 47 cases

Federal health officials have expanded the recall list of potentially contaminated injectable medications suspected in a multi-state meningitis outbreak and the death of five people. More and more cases are being reported, with 47 people having contracted meningitis in seven states. 

The Food and Drug Administration released a list of 34 different drugs this morning that included steroids, epidural anesthetics used to block pain during childbirth, and surgery and saline solutions that are compounded to make different medications. All of the products on the recall list were made by the New England Compound Center (NECC) in Framingham, Mass., and are administered by injection into the spine. ..

..The Centers for Disease Control and FDA have asked the clinics, doctors offices and hospitals in 23 states that have received shipments of medications from NECC to stop using them immediately. Anyone who has received epidural injections since July 1 should watch for symptoms of meningitis. Health officials say the most common symptoms are worsening headache, fever, stiff neck, trouble walking or falling and progressing back pain. Many of these patients have suffered strokes.
Click for a full list of recalled drugs from the FDA...


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List of Recalled Products Related to Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm322752.htm

CDC providing support as Ebola outbreak in Congo claims three dozen

Tue, 2012-10-02 08:35 AM

By: Mark Rockwell

Haut-Uélé district

The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention continues to provide laboratory resources and personnel to help battle a growing outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the African nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The outbreak of the virulent virus may have killed up to 36 people, out of 81 suspected cases, according to new tallies released by the country’s health ministry on Oct. 1.

CDC said its teams are on the ground in DRC to help the Ministry of Health with epidemiologic and diagnostic aspects of the investigation. The agency is also providing laboratory support through its field laboratory in Isiro, and through the CDC/UVRI lab in Uganda.

The outbreak is centered in the Isiro and Viadana health zones in Haut-Uélé district in Province Orientale, according to the World Health Organization. To date, 28 suspected cases have been reported and are being investigated.

The Haut-Uele cases follow an earlier outbreak of the disease in July in the in the Kibaale District of Uganda which borders the DRC to the west. In that incident, the CDC said there was a total of 24 human cases (both probable and confirmed), 17 of which were fatal. However, the CDC said the outbreak in DRC is not linked epidemiologically to the recently-ended outbreak in Kibaale district.

The new numbers from the DRC show the outbreak spreading. On Sept. 27, the WHO said it recorded 51 cases (19 laboratory confirmed, 32 probable) with Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) there. Of those, it said, 20 had been fatal (7 confirmed, 13 probable).

The WHO said the DRC’s Ministry of Health (MoH) continues to work with partners, under the National Task Force which includes: WHO; Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF); the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); US Agency for International Development (USAID); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to identify all possible chains of transmission of the illness and ensure that appropriate measures are taken to interrupt transmission and stop the outbreak.

Response operations continue in coordination; Infection Prevention and Control (IPC); surveillance and epidemiology; case management; public information and social mobilization; psycho social support; anthropological analysis; and logistics.

The WHO said it is training health managers and heads of clinic services to strengthen surveillance; reaching out to schools through principals, teachers and students; providing psychosocial support to affected families, particularly in Isiro and surrounding areas, where the latest cases are being detected, and to health care workers; training social workers who provide support in the Ebola treatment rooms; and honing interpersonal communication skills training for front-line staff. Local community-based radio programs, it said, are also broadcasting information to address the concerns of the local populations.

WHO and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) have also deployed experts to support operational response. Technical support has been further strengthened with an infection prevention and control expert to assist in preventing disease transmission in health care and community settings.  http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/27499?c=cbrne_detection

The balance of the Ebola epidemic led to 36 deaths

10/01/12 - 24:26 Source: belga.be

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The Ebola epidemic raging in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo has probably killed 36 people on 81 cases recorded, according to a new report from the Department of Health on Monday.

At September 29, 81 cases were recorded - including 20 confirmed, 32 probable and 29 suspect - and 36 deaths were recorded. Laboratory tests revealed that 10 of these deaths were directly related to Ebola.

September 25, 33 deaths had been recorded on 79 cases and seven deaths were due to the certainty with Ebola...

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Vietnam says progress on a new #H5N1 vaccine

There have been new control avian influenza virus vaccine

Wednesday, 03.10.2012, 01:58 (GMT +7)

Delta urgently to prevent disease in livestock, poultry (SGGP). - Which information is the Department of Animal Health, said at a meeting of the Steering Committee National bird flu dimensional 2-10.Pham Van Dong, director of the Veterinary Department said new virus control group C vaccine being tested (the toxic intensity) on chickens, the results are quite encouraging. In the near future, will continue to flock trials, if positive results continue to be put into mass use. According to the Department of Animal Health, there are currently five provinces appear avian influenza, including: Ha Tinh, Quang Ngai, Peace, Tuyen Quang and Pacific. In it, the Quang Ngai bird deaths and the destruction of the largest with nearly 24,000 children out of 40,000 poultry deaths and destruction to this point. Animal Health Department said that the bird flu will be complicated from now to the end of the year because of trading activity, the re-breeding herd in adults. In addition, from August to now, our country found a new branch H5N1 virus group (group C). New group of virus entry into Vietnam, spread along the routes from north to south, is now appearing in the outbreak in Quang Ngai province... http://www.sggp.org.vn/xahoi/2012/10/300504/

Chinese smuggled chicken: "Do not say it, say it!"

Tuesday, 02/10/2012, 09:15 PM (GMT +7)

(News) - Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Diep Kinh Tan said so at the meeting of the National Steering Committee for bird flu and foot and mouth this afternoon (2/10).

Deputy Minister Tan expressed dismayed status chicken smuggled from China. He said that the story chicken smuggled from China has repeatedly said so many times. He asked relevant agencies to immediately terminate this situation, if not, the livestock sector in the country is difficult to develop. Meanwhile, as reported by Nguyen Thanh Son (Deputy Director of the Department of Animal Husbandry) in August and early September, after the Prime Minister has the power to direct and control the local close smuggled poultry. The markets barely illegal bird silhouette. Yet by the end of last September, when the authorities loosened control, illegal import of poultry has increased massively....

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Mexican avian flu 'nightmare' as 25m birds lost

Two leaders of the Mexican egg industry have spoken of their "nightmare" after an estimated 25 million laying birds were lost in an outbreak of avian influenza.

Cesar de Anda (pictured) and Sergio Chavez told delegates at the London conference of the International Egg Commission (IEC) how the virus had devastated egg units in Jalisco - the state where most of Mexico's eggs are produced. "It was a very aggressive virus," said Cesar. "In a matter of days an infected farm was gone. It was a nightmare. I have been in the egg business all my life and it is the first time I have experienced anything like this. One day I just broke down in tears. It was unbelievable."

Conference delegates had earlier heard from Jorge Rueda of the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture. He explained how the virus struck on June 18 in Jalisco, where 55 per cent of all the country's eggs are produced. For Mexico, it quickly became a crisis. The country has the highest consumption of eggs of anywhere in the world and is one of the world's major egg producers - turnin..

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Egypt Health: examination of pilgrims returning to detect influenza virus and corona

Egypt Health: examination of pilgrims returning to detect influenza virus and corona

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Dr. Amr Kandil, First Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Preventive Affairs, that the preventive measures to be taken when the return of pilgrims this year include taking random samples from the throat of the pilgrims returning from ports and airports and analyzed to detect any new types of viruses especially virus influenza and coronavirus.

Kandil said in a press statement Tuesday that the preventive measures for pilgrims Egyptians generally include that for the pilgrims from the elderly and people with chronic diseases preferred resort for medical a..  http://www.egynews.net/wps/portal/news?params=193491

...the Ministry of Health for Preventive Medicine, it will take random samples from the throat swab as part of routine is every two years when pilgrims return from Hajj airports and ports in order to discover whether there are new types of influenza virus or Verurs Coruna... http://gate.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/13/54/257144/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%B0-%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AC-%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%89-%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85-%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%B4.aspx

DRC Ebola death toll at 36

October 1 2012 at 04:48pm 

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A medical worker researchers who are working on the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, at their laboratory in Entebbe 42kms from the capital Kampala.

An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have killed up to 36 people, out of 81 suspected cases, according to a new death toll released by the health ministry on Monday.

The ministry said that 20 confirmed cases have been recorded, as well as 32 likely and 29 suspected as of September 29.

They said that among the 36 deaths, 10 were confirmed to have been a direct result of the killer virus.

They also said that the number of people under observation had risen to 216 since the outbreak was first reported in mid-August in the eastern Orientale province.

The vast majority of cases were reported in and around the town of Isiro.

DR Congo has recorded eight outbreaks of Ebola, one of the world's most virulent diseases, since the virus was first reported near a river that gave it its name in 1976. - AFP http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/drc-ebola-death-toll-at-36-1.1393828#.UGpcY03peek

Update on Coronavirus patient

Began to regain consciousness and talking with his companions

Reversing the spread of "Corona" in the body of the citizen

Brother of the patient's flag: raise breathing apparatus within 10 days

Doctors assured that the patient exceeded the worst

Patient out of the hospital within two week


Brother of the patient revealed the country infected with "Corona" that doctors treating the patient in London confirmed that the virus has subsided in the patient's body significantly and that his health condition has improved significantly .. Expecting to be removing a respirator from a patient within 10 days. 
And renewed thanks and gratitude to His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir and HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Crown Prince on assuming the costs for treatment and follow up the case of his brother.

The brother of the patient to the flag, that his brother began yesterday in preponderating gradual and restore consciousness, where he met the Issaahbunh in the room of his relatives and grabbed the hands of his sons and talk to them in simple words, which he described doctors as an indicator of the significant improvement in the health status of the patient.

He added: medical team for my brother assured us yesterday that the virus "Corona" ended its full body and began to recede and all improvement indicators are increasing day after the other in terms of the return of all members of the body to work efficiently and return the proportion of oxygen in the blood to normal, confirming that the patient exceeded the worst stage of the disease.

He continued: the medical team explained to us all the details of the therapeutic process, which is currently, which has become now limited to treatment of all complications and adverse effects of the virus on the body and suggested that it Almrahj if it continued positive indicators as they are to come out the patient from the hospital within two weeks, but will remain in London as a period of convalescence and follow-up has not yet been determined.

He explained that officials of the Supreme Council of Health follow now the health status of my brother, but said he was Libenge on the Council to send a medical team to accompany the situation and follow-up phases of treatment and techniques adopted by the hospital in Britain and contributed to save his life, even as a reference on how to deal with the virus, "Corona "New case of the emergence of other cases, particularly that his brother is the only case in the world hit by the virus and treated him.

The World Health Organization announced that a deadly new virus from the same family as the virus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome "SARS" does not spread easily among humans apparently. In the latest statement on the virus, WHO said the United Nations was working with international partners to develop a better perception of the risk posed by the virus to public health.

She said: "It seems the information available so far that the virus coronal new can not pass easily from one person to another .. Because of the severity of the two cases confirmed laboratories injuries WHO continues to monitor the situation in order to provide the Member States ways to deal with it as well as the experience and appropriate assistance."

According to the medical instructions issued by the World Health Organization for its Member States the 149 state that the workers in the medical field to alert anyone showing symptoms of infection severe respiratory and call his treatment in the hospital and was in the Middle East by monitoring the virus or was connection with the case confirmed or suspected during the previous ten days. The organization did not recommend travel restrictions because of the new virus, but said it was working closely with the Saudi authorities on sanitary measures during the Hajj season.

He said experts in the health sector that progress has already been achieved in defining the nature of the new virus and its genetic composition and in the development of accurate diagnostic tests and specific. The organization said it is working with laboratories in several countries to make these tests available as soon as possible.

Confirmed that the press conference was to raise awareness of the virus and not talk about the patient
Board of Health: constant monitoring of the state of the patient, "Corona"
DOHA -:

The Supreme Council of Health that the continuous follow-up of the patient's condition country infected with "Corona", which addresses one of the hospitals in the UK, through the Department of treatment abroad for necessary action towards the patient.

The Supreme Council of Health, in response to a report published by the flag on the evolution of the patient's condition, that coordination continues to therapeutic level by specialists Hospital Hamad General doctors intensive care unit in London and under the supervision of a medical office there, where they are raising the medical reports and regularly about the patient's condition, he was most recently on September 26, a day before one of the published flag where the report included some positive developments.

The Council noted that the Hamad General Hospital has to provide the maximum possible therapeutic service to the patient during the period he was at the hospital until the moment of his .. Adding that cause of the disease was discovered the day after the patient's arrival to London, and this is due to the fact that the virus is not known in advance.

He said that the press conference of the Council on September 24 was designed to deliver information about the disease formally to avoid rumors and community awareness by and procedures precautionary other, as new diseases or incident that may pose a threat to the health of the individual and society, not to talk about the patient or how interest in it, where it is the inherent right of every citizen and resident.

And other details that have been published, the Board considered it things can be pursued between health and the patient's family through customary channels, and to safeguard his privacy and the rights of patients .. The following is the text of a reply:

/ Saleh bin Afassan Kuwari esteemed

Editor of The Peninsula glue

Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings,

Guide you the Supreme Council of Health presents his compliments and large appreciates your efforts in serving the nation and the citizen, and would like to clarify the following:

Referring to the subject contained the esteemed Bgeridtkm issued on Thursday, September 27, the number (11100) on the development of "case patient Corona"

We would like to clarify the following:

He has Hamad General Hospital to provide maximum therapeutic service to the patient during the period he was at the hospital until the moment of his departure, noting that cause of the disease was discovered the day after the patient's arrival to London, due to the fact that the virus is not known in advance.

Thus, the press conference held by the Supreme Council of Health dated September 24, was designed to deliver information about the disease formally to avoid rumors and community awareness by and procedures precautionary other being new diseases or incident that may pose a threat to the health of the individual and society, not to talk about the patient itself or how interest in it as this inherent right of every citizen and resident.

And renew the Supreme Council of Health emphasized that the through management treatment abroad work necessary to the patient and that coordination continues to therapeutic level by specialists Hospital Hamad General doctors intensive care unit in London and under the supervision of a medical office there by raising the medical reports and regularly, most recently on September 26 - one day before the publication of the news in your newspaper and referred to in this Todahana - where the report included some positive developments.

As regards other details mentioned in the news sees the Supreme Council of Health as things can be pursued between health and the patient's family through customary channels and to safeguard his privacy and the rights of patients.

This is necessary clarification,

Please accept our sincere greetings and appreciation.

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Mad cow disease detected in Ukraine

2012-09-29 07:18:10

KIEV, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- A case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in Ukraine, the first in two years, reported the authorities on Friday.

A cow from a private household in the central Vinnitsa region was found to behave aggressively on Tuesday, the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry said in a statement.

The cow was slaughtered the next day and tests confirmed that the cow was infected with mad cow disease, it said.

The new case posed no risk to human health as all farmers in contact with the cow were vaccinated, said the ministry.

Local authorities have sealed off the village where the infected cow was found to prevent the spread of the disease.

Mad cow disease, which attacks the central nervous system, is thought to be spread mainly in contaminated feed, when animals consume the meat of infected animals. It attacks an animal through hard-to-destroy protein forms called prions, which can multiply in the brain, reducing it to a spongy wreck.  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2012-09/29/c_131880425.htm?

Israel-Health Ministry issues emergency orders for treatment of lethal virus

WHO officials say it is too early to tell how big a threat a recently discovered coronavirus will be since it is unknown how it spreads and whether it will evolve

By RON FRIEDMAN and AP September 30, 2012, 5:13 am 

Israeli doctors who encounter patients suspected of having contracted a newly discovered lethal virus have been ordered by the Health ministry to place the patients under strict quarantine, Ynet reported on Saturday.

The Health Ministry issued emergency directives to doctors and medical practitioners on how to treat patients they suspect of suffering from the SARS-like coronavirus that killed one person in Saudi Arabia, including taking precautions such as wearing face masks and gloves when coming into contact with them and sanitizing rooms they were present in... http://www.timesofisrael.com/health-ministry-issues-emergency-orders-for-treatment-of-lethal-virus/?

Germany- almost 9000 children and teachers ill

Ill almost 9000 children and teachers
authorities are cautious
Nearly 9000 children and young people in East Germany are suffering - much more than initially announced. Meanwhile, there are the first clues to the cause: In some cases, the highly contagious norovirus detected. With a rating to restrain the authorities. Too large, the uncertainty after the scandal was EHEC.

Also, the State Laboratory Berlin-Brandenburg studied food samples of affected schools. It's a review yet.
(Photo: Reuters)
Of the massive gastrointestinal diseases in East Germany more children and adolescents are affected than previously known. "Nationwide, almost 9000 cases of disease known", said the spokesperson of the Berlin health management with on Saturday afternoon. In Saxony and Thuringia, now the highly infectious norovirus was detected. But in evaluating these results, the authorities are careful. You appear to have drawn lessons from the sometimes chaotic EHEC crisis management. Whether noroviruses are the main source is, therefore, remains unclear...

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