Canada Travel Health Notice level 2

H7N9 avian flu in China

Updated: May 03, 2013

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Travel Health Notice

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed human cases of an avian influenza virus identified as A(H7N9) in the People’s Republic of China. To date cases have been identified in the municipalities of Beijing and Shanghai and the provinces of Anhui, Fujian, Henan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong and Zhejiang. Additional cases are expected.

On April 24, the WHO confirmed the first case of the virus outside mainland China. The Taiwanese individual had worked in mainland China, which is where he was most likely infected.

For the latest updates on avian influenza (H7N9) virus, also referred to as H7N9 flu virus, including the total number of cases and deaths please visit the WHO’s Global Alert and Response website.

Many different influenza viruses are found in animals and do not normally infect humans. The cases of H7N9 flu virus are of particular concern as they are the first reported cases of this avian influenza virus in humans.

The Chinese government is responding to this event and the investigation is ongoing. The WHO is working closely with the national authorities to better understand the situation. At this time, there is no evidence of ongoing human-to-human transmission.

The Public Health Agency of Canada works closely with its national and international partners, including the WHO, to track all types of flu activity in Canada and around the world. The Agency will continue to monitor the situation and inform the public as information becomes available.

The Agency recommends that travellers reduce their risk by following the tips listed below.

Recommendations

Consult a health care provider or visit a travel health clinic preferably six weeks before you travel.

1. Minimize your risk of being exposed to avian influenza:
   • If you are travelling to an area where avian influenza is a concern:
     • avoid high-risk areas such as poultry farms and live animal markets;
     • avoid unnecessary contact with birds, including chickens, ducks and wild birds;
     • avoid surfaces that may have bird droppings or secretions on them; and
     • ensure that all poultry dishes are well cooked, including eggs.
2. Wash your hands frequently:
   • Wash your hands with soap under warm running water.
   • Alcohol-based hand sanitizer can also be used if soap and water are not readily available. It’s a good idea to keep some with you in your pocket or purse when you travel.
3. Practise proper cough and sneeze etiquette:
   • Cover your mouth and nose with your arm to reduce the spread of germs. Remember if you use a tissue, dispose of it as soon as possible and wash your hands afterwards.
4. Monitor your health:
   • If you have developed flu-like symptoms and you have been travelling or living in an area where avian influenza is a concern:
     • Upon arrival in Canada, tell a border services officer or a quarantine officer.
     • If you develop symptoms within 10 days after your return to Canada, you should see a health care provider and tell them where you have been travelling or living.

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Date Modified: 2013-05-03

Al-Ahsa hospitals alert to besiege the virus "Corona"

..response to a query about the possibility of providing analyzers to detect the virus in Al-Ahsa stands for effort and time, said Marghalani that in the Kingdom of laboratory and one to conduct tests to detect this virus, and are available by precision instruments and high processing. 
revealed workers in hospitals maintain that coincide with recording the first cases of infection, and received frequent contacts of health-Ahsa, obliges hospitals quickly receive "disinfectants" and distribution of urgently for administrative offices, departments, clinics, and in the corridors, to ensure coverage of hospital fully, describing the arrival of such large quantities of disinfectants to hospitals as "striking", where there were many kinds, was including desktop and ground, machine guns atmosphere, and Sterilizers hands, which refers to the alert to create a healthy environment clean and sterile inside health facilities. 
added workers they then were not familiar with the circumstances of the spread of the virus, and a few days after news leaked in the medical community for the registration of suspected cases of the virus, in reference them to link exchange sterilizers, recording the first cases suspicion, and then the injury. 
In the same context, انتابت a state of panic and anxiety among the community Statistical with increasing numbers of people living with HIV, as played by many from going to hospitals for treatment, or visit inpatients. ..  http://alwatan.com.sa/Nation/News_Detail.aspx?ArticleID=144728&CategoryID=3

Virus's Toll in Saudi Arabia Raises Fear of Faster Spread

MIDDLE EAST NEWS
Updated May 6, 2013, 6:34 p.m. ET


By ELLEN KNICKMEYER in Hofuf, Saudi Arabia, and BETSY MCKAY in Atlanta

Saudi Arabia's announcements in the past five days of seven new deaths from a SARS-like virus have heightened fears that the Mideast outbreak is entering a more-aggressive phase...

..."People are sending messages, SMSs, saying, 'stay home.' That all the hospitals have the virus. All," said one man, a cousin to one of the men who died and to two other men who have been sickened in the current outbreak and are still being treated.

The man confirmed an account from a hospital official in Hofuf that his three relatives had gone to three different hospitals in Eastern Province.

"The Ministry of Health just wants to close the books" by saying the latest outbreak is limited to one hospital, the man said, speaking on a Hofuf street lined with medical centers and pharmacies...


...In Hofuf on Monday, the guards posted outside the intensive-care unit at the private Al Moosa General Hospital were among the few signs of a medical crisis.

Malek al Moosa, the hospital's executive director, confirmed that many of the coronavirus patients were treated here. Mr. Moosa denied that his hospital was the center of the outbreak, however, and denied that it was the only hospital treating patients stricken with the virus...  Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...461787346.html

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Saudis cite health facility as coronavirus cluster grows

Robert Roos  News Editor

May 6, 2013 (CIDRAP News) – Three new cases yesterday, with two deaths, increased a cluster of novel coronavirus (nCoV) cases in eastern Saudi Arabia to 13, and authorities confirmed that the illnesses are associated with a healthcare facility.

The new cases added to concern about possible person-to-person transmission of the novel virus. Human transmission has been clearly demonstrated only once before, in a family cluster of three cases in the United Kingdom in February.

Seven of the 13 patients in the current Saudi cluster have died. With the three new cases, the global count of confirmed nCoV cases has reached 30, including 18 deaths.

The three cases were reported yesterday by Ziad A. Memish, MD, Saudi Arabia's deputy ministry for public health, via ProMED-mail, the online reporting service of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a short statement about the cases today.

"So far there is no apparent community transmission and transmission seem[s] linked to one HCF [health care facility]," Memish wrote. All the cases have been in Alhasa (also written as Al-Ahsa) in the country's Eastern Province.

The WHO statement said, "The government is conducting ongoing investigation into this outbreak which is linked to one health care facility."

Memish said the cases involve:

• A 62-year-old woman with multiple comorbidities who fell ill on Apr 19 and died May 3
• A 71-year-old man with multiple comorbidities who got sick Apr 15 and died May 3
• A 58-year-old woman with comorbidities who became ill May 1, is on a ventilator, and is in critical but stable condition

He gave no details about their preexisting conditions and did not identify the hospital involved. Nor did he mention any connections between the cases, though two earlier patients in the cluster were said to be related.

The WHO reported the first seven cases in the region on May 2, and Memish cited three more on May 3. All 13 patients have been reported to have one or more comorbidities, and 11 of the patients are over age 50. The underlying illnesses and the localization of the cases prompted earlier speculation that they were all in one healthcare facility.

Illness-onset dates in the cluster have ranged from Apr 14 to May 1, a long enough period to suggest to some that the virus has spread from person to person in the facility, rather than that all the patients caught it from a common nonhuman source.

The virus's incubation period has not been clearly established, but researchers who analyzed the UK family cluster estimated that the period ranges from 1 to 9 days, according to a Mar 14 report in Eurosurveillance.

Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, said the information about the cluster suggests person-to-person transmission, possibly with more than one generation of cases, according to a Canadian Press story published yesterday. He is director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, publisher of CIDRAP News.

"With no evidence of an animal reservoir in the hospital, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that this is person-to-person," he said. Concerning the range of illness-onset dates, he added, "This is far too wide to be an incubation period. This [event] is much more complicated than that."

Osterholm told CIDRAP News that the cluster could involve one person who passed the virus to others over a period of several weeks or "multiple person-to-person transmission episodes from different sources," with the latter scenario more likely.

The novel virus is related to coronaviruses found in bats, but experts have not succeeded in uncovering its animal source or the route it follows to get into humans.

One previous hospital cluster of nCoV cases has been reported. The illnesses occurred in a hospital in Jordan in April 2012, but they were not identified as nCoV until later in the year, after the virus was first identified in a Saudi Arabian man. The Jordan cluster included two confirmed cases and 11 probable ones, and 10 of the 13 people involved were healthcare workers, according to the WHO.

The new virus is in the same family as the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus, which spread to about 30 countries and killed around 900 people in 2003. Experts have been alert for hospital outbreaks of nCoV, because such outbreaks played a major role in the rapid spread of SARS.

In other developments, a group of scientists and public health officials plans to recommend a new name for nCoV, according to aScienceInsider report today. The proposed name is Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

The name is being suggested by the Coronavirus Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which took the initiative to find a new, widely accepted name, according to the story.

Raoul de Groot, a veterinary virologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, chair of the study group, said it plans to publish a paper recommending the new name. It will be up to researchers to decide whether to use it or not, since the study group has no power to require its use.

So far the virus has gone by a few different names. As noted in the story, the virus was first isolated in Saudi Arabia but was first characterized by a group at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, who picked the name "human coronavirus-Erasmus MC," or HCoV-EMC. That irritated some Saudi officials. Some researchers have dropped the "EMC" and just use HCoV (human coronavirus), while the WHO has used nCoV.

De Groot commented that the name his group chose refers to a large region and avoids singling out any country.

The countries involved in the nCoV outbreak and their numbers of cases and deaths, as tallied by ProMED, are: Saudia Arabia, 22 cases and 13 deaths; Jordan, 2 and 2; the United Kingdom, 3 and 2; Qatar, 2 and 1; United Arab Emirates, 1 and 1. (One Qatari patient is still being treated in the UK, and one Qatari and the UAE patient were treated in Germany.) http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/other/sars/news/may0613corona.html

Corona has a three-gene mutations suggesting a shift in the virus

43% of injuries «Corona» Global in Saudi

ميمش يستعرض للصحفيين أمس، جهود وزارة الصحة في مواجهة كورونا (تصوير: رشيد 
Retained the Kingdom of the lion's share in the number of cases of injury and death virus Coruna in the world, at a time in which it proclaimed the World Health Organization for sure injury and the death of 30 cases in the world, announced the Ministry of Health in the Kingdom been confirmed 13 cases, all in the province of Al-Ahsa in the Eastern Province, according to the Under Secretary for Public Health Dr. Ziad Mamish.
According to data from the World Health Organization, 16 deaths occurred worldwide as a result of infection with Corona mysterious, according to statistics of the Ministry of Health in Saudi died 7 persons of the total cases, equivalent to 43% of deaths in the world, is that the Ministry of Health considered that the spread of HIV Corona Kingdom limited.
Five cases are subject to scrutiny of contacts with families that their condition diagnosed in Al-Ahsa.

Medical team

And an integrated ministry sent a team to support the eastern region and hospital examination and review all existing cases in the province, where it was discovered that the infected cases are all linked to a single hospital.
According to Undersecretary of the Ministry of Public Health Health Dr. Ziad ميمش, the infected cases were treated with or in contact with people who were in the same hospital.

Variable virus

The ميمش in remarks on the sidelines of a press conference held yesterday, to clarify the situation of the spread of HIV Corona, that the ministry studied the virus and found that variable and has a three-gene mutations, suggesting that there is a shift in the virus and Obaúath and transmission and symptoms.
He ruled Mamish be Kingdom to come on the stage of the disease in epidemic seasons of Hajj and Umrah, said in a statement to Asharq »The injury limited and there is nothing to worry about also denied the rumors on social networking sites for increasing numbers of patients.

In answer to a question to Asharq »» whether to rain a role in the transmission of the disease said, we do not know but the short duration of the disease and a small number of people, then that influenza affects 250,000 people in America in a year. The first recorded case of the disease in June of 2012 and then was the discovery of the new virus in September of 2012, and so far have been diagnosed with the disease in 30 cases in the world and included cases of some countries such as Qatar and the UAE, Jordan and Britain, and The Ministry of Health in the Kingdom of the current status of virus Koruna .

Among Mamish that viruses are different from viruses previous result of friction between humans and animals are larger than the previous biggest example of virus (h7n9) made in China and that the number of cases of infection to 150 cases and deaths 30 cases of this virus has been known in the past that the Aasab human but infect Animal However, in China there is no clarity animals even with the injury examined and this change did not exist in the past, pointing out that the changes that occur to get viruses every ten years, and thereby changing its symptoms and how to deal with him. The corona virus is a group of viruses causing respiratory diseases and symptoms are very similar to flu symptoms and as this new style of Koruna Many disease information for is not documented and is fixed in scientific terms.

Connect with scientific bodies

The Deputy Minister of Health for Health Affairs, Dr. Mansour Hawasi during the press conference that the ministry since the beginning discovered for the first condition virus Koruna keen to work systematic and scientific studied, and through communication with the scientific bodies and specialists in the world and in the Kingdom, is also keen ministry always be a decision stems from a scientific perspective is through specialized scientific committees locally and internationally.

Novelty disease

For its part, indicated infection control director and associate professor at King Saud University in the National Guard d. Hanan Balkhi, that the development of virus Koruna and identify its causes at the moment is still too early and can not determine the time to increase the infection, because the virus itself Newbie and novelty and information about it is insufficient, pointing out that scientific studies to detect the causes of the disease and its nature may need two to three detectors the fact that this virus.

Limited cases

In the same context, explained consultant infectious diseases, the Ministry of Defence Medical Services Dr. Ali Al-Barrak that the infected cases are very limited and confined to one place, which is under the control is not cause for concern about it at the moment, noting that those who are most susceptible to this virus are people who have a history satisfactory for some chronic diseases Kalozmat the chest and kidney failure and others, pointing out that there is not yet a vaccine specific to the virus in the world.
She advisory infectious diseases in children at King Saud University Dr. Sarah Subaie the university has extensive experience in the field of studies and research that there is cooperation between the university and the ministry through the department of infectious diseases and the Department of viruses and infection control department.

Seniors injury

For his part, said consultant infectious diseases in adults from Saudi Aramco, Dr. Jafar Al Tawfiq that all cases that have been recorded in Al-Ahsa has various health problems and chronic diseases, and that the average age of patients more than 50 years.

Awareness programs

For his part, the Director of the School Health Advisory children Dr Sulaiman Monthly, that there is cooperation and coordination continuing between the ministries of health and education in the field of awareness programs related to diseases, especially infectious them and are prepared awareness programs for students in schools.
The consultant said the family and community medicine at the Security Forces Hospital Dr. Saud Al Hassan said that a new virus is known from previous studies and research still performed it to find the ways and reasons for moving and the nature of dealing with him and tackle him.

Middle monitors 'Corona' in Al-Ahsa .. Muhaisin went to dialysis and no longer .. Abdullah Sheikh treated him since
Dammam - Fatima Al Dubies

He did not know Mr. Abdullah Muhaisin, he would be killed because of his corona virus infection, which moved him from the hospital, which is being Gusala كلويا periodically in Al-Ahsa. Muhaisin went as usual to the hospital treating him in Al-Ahsa last Wednesday for dialysis, and he had finished and was discharged from hospital until the hair by a rise in temperature, فقصد the hospital again, it was unable to control his فحولته to a hospital Aramco in Dhahran, which was diagnosed and revealed that infected with Corona, and he stayed until he passed away last Sunday after he fell into a coma in full, according to one of his relatives.
Al «East» that the Ministry of Health took samples from all his relatives after testing and death Muhaisin HIV 'Corona' as a precautionary measure for not injuring one of them.

Were not the death of Muhaisin is the only one in Al-Ahsa, it was his right to a number of other deaths, managed «East» to interview some of their relatives, in the same day of the death Muhaisin died Mrs. Mariam Ali after her symptoms of disease «Corona» and said «Middle» Abdullah Ismail « husband's brother Ali »that Ms. transfer to the hospital after her sense of a rise in temperature and pain in the stomach, but she was in good condition and able to walk, was the work of a preliminary examination as soon as they enter the hospital.

He added that the doctor treated requested action planning for the heart to make sure نبضاته, and introduced into a room where four women patients, but that he heard the screams of the doctor and request ambulance, and did not know that the wife of his brother, so I told him the doctor that her heart stops pulse, and tried to Asaaffha then transferred to the Hospital Algeloa which is the other could not save them.

And enables hospital Aramco control of the third case by a novel infected Hussein al-Sheikh, where improved his condition since he was hospitalized before 7 days, but asked the hospital survival for another week to confirm his safety, said his brother Hisham Sheikh that his brother felt symptoms of heat and pain in the stomach, and then taken to the hospital, which gave him the necessary antibiotics until his condition improved.

Another person died last week b «Corona» after it has been transferred to a hospital Aramco.
With complained Naji Haddad allowed to visit his brother suspected wound continuously without warning or prevent the visit, explaining that his brother lying in King Fahd Hospital in Al-Ahsa a week ago because he felt fever and stomach pain, shortness of breath, and since the first day he found him in the same room person Another was infected with the same symptoms and died on the same day, his brother stayed in the same room visit did not prevent him, but he put two days ago with a suspected of having the same disease in one room, stressing that his brother suffers from mental retardation.
The brother of Abdullah Al-Sheikh citizen who lay in Al-Ahsa General Hospital, the disease moved to his brother a year ago, and even now his condition did not improve, and does not know what the complications that occurred to him.

And between the young father of the deceased Mukhtar Amir Ghanem, that the state of his son began to slightly higher temperature, then بإغماء, and then transferred to the hospital who Pttabiba, but the continuation of fainting led to a transfer by ambulance to a hospital Jaffer government, which referred also to the King Fahd Hospital, and continued treatment for three days, but after استيقاظه of fainting and improved his condition on the second day, then relapsed on the third day that he passed away last Thursday, adding that the symptoms are the symptoms of «Corona», but there is no report proves that he had died of this disease.

And continued east with a suspected virus, named Zaki Moaibed, who seek treatment currently in King Fahd Hospital in Al-Ahsa, and stated that he was transferred yesterday after a high temperature and inflammation of the chest, and said that he seek treatment at the hospital yesterday, but the temperature did not fall below 40 degrees, was be given nutritious food and medicine which is used in the normal case, assured Moaibed that put in the hospital with another patient who is also a suspect wound.

.. وحسين الشيخ يرقد في مستشفى أرامكو (الشرق)

 Hussein al-Sheikh lying in hospital Aramco middle

جاسم الشداد في مستشفى الملك فهد

 Jassim repayment at King Fahd Hospital

زكي المعيبد في مستشفى الملك فهد في الأحساء

Abdullah Sheikh lying in a hospital in Al-Ahsa (East)

   http://www.alsharq.net.sa/2013/05/07/826684

Diseased pork sold in several provinces

By Li Qian  |   2013-5-6 TWO villagers in southeast Fujian Province hired by a town government to properly dispose of sick and dead pigs have been arrested for allegedly selling tons of bad meat in several provinces, yesterday's Xiaoxiang Morning Post reported.

A 44-year-old woman surnamed Lin and a 33-year-old colleague surnamed Wu are said to have sold 40 tons of pork for more than 3 million yuan (US$487,500) over a three-month period. 

An initial police investigation showed the meat was mainly sold to processing factories in provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan but some was served to diners in restaurants. 
The pair had been hired by the Jiaomei Town government to collect sick and dead pigs and ensure their proper disposal. 

But the newspaper said Lin saw a business opportunity and began to sell the meat last August. Wu took note of her rising income and decided to join the enterprise, the paper said. 

It is claimed they set up a 6-ton freezer unit and picked up pigs dumped at the roadside as well as buying sick animals. They established a slaughterhouse and hired three butchers.

Lin and Wu were caught on March 15 after police received a tip-off while making a delivery. 

Their freezer contained 25 tons of pigs and there were another 7 tons in their truck, police said. All the carcasses tested positive for highly-contagious diseases, the paper reported.

A freezer supervisor surnamed Xie was also arrested. Lin, Wu and Xi face charges of producing food in violation of safety standards. 

Police are searching for the three butchers. http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2013/05/06/Diseased%2Bpork%2Bsold%2Bin%2Bseveral%2Bprovinces/

EGYPT-East Zomran residents in a protest march due to Khtiro virus killer

Output residents roundabout Amoh Sons of the Zomran of Eastern region Saragna Castle yesterday at seven in the morning in a protest march on foot towards the parliamentary estate devoted to livestock and cattle infected with the virus dangerous and deadly. They cut off the road link between secondary Tmlalt and Sidi Rahal for more than 5 hours against their abuses which تلحقهم of Parliamentary known in the region. And the silence and secrecy applied by the Ministry of Health in the subject because of this dangerous virus is not known. Which I killed factor Baldaah the foregoing. 
raising the population roundabout Awlad Amoh and douars neighboring during the march, which was attended by hundreds of them, banners, chanting slogans denouncing silence those responsible and denouncing the death of the citizen "Sweetheart Alkaaadh" aged 35 years old, married father of four sons.

On Saturday 04 May 2013 Hospital Ibn Tufail Marrakech and demanding an investigation into the matter with the owner of the estate who accuse him of population using his influence to cover up the case, which became residents Zomran Eastern living because of a state of panic and fear because of the spread of serious disease, according to sources "independent" 
has intervened local authorities to negotiate with the protesters to prevent access to the menial Parliamentary which spread the virus which made ​​proposals on deepening research and trying to figure out all the conditions and circumstances of the incident. 

and return details of the incident, when he was surprised by the owner of the estate located dizzy Awlad Amoh's Zomran eastern province Saragna Castle, بنفوق cow in mysterious circumstances, Farqm Group Baldaah on the autopsy to determine the cause of death. And 24 hours after the incident strange symptoms appeared on the group charged under the auspices of the herd and of high body temperature and blotches on the skin thing you ask to move to a hospital safety Saragna castle to receive the necessary treatments.
Who in turn sent to the hospital Ibn al-Nafis Marrakech, which rejected his officials received for unknown reasons to be transferred in the latter to a hospital Ibn Tufail Centre's University Hospital Mohammed VI.
 Were put patient department resuscitation room confinement and under heavy guard after it became clear the medical staff supervisor  http://almoustakil.com/3677-%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8.html

International Group Settles on Name for New Coronavirus

by Martin Enserink on 6 May 2013, 

New MERS cases. The MERS coronavirus. Or—if things turn really bad—the MERS pandemic. That's how the world may soon be talking about the new virus that surfaced in the Arabian Peninsula last summer and that has been rattling health experts since. In a move that may end more than 7 months of confusion, an international group of scientists and public health officials will soon recommend that the new virus be called Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

The group plans to publish a paper recommending the new name, says Raoul de Groot, a veterinary virologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who has coordinated the effort. De Groot chairs the Coronavirus Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which took the initiative to find a new, widely accepted name. The study group has no power to enforce use of the name, however; it will be up to researchers to decide whether to adopt the moniker.

News of the name comes as Saudi Arabia has reported 13 new cases of the virus, including seven deaths, in just the past 5 days. The wave—more than a month after the last reported case, a 73-year-old man from Abu Dhabi who died in Munich on 26 March—has sparked fresh worries that the virus might start spreading between humans and trigger a global outbreak. As of today, the total reported number of cases is 30, including 18 deaths

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/05/international-group-settles-on-n.html 

Novel coronavirus infection - update

Novel coronavirus infection - update

06/05/2013 The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia has informed WHO of an additional three laboratory confirmed cases of infection with the novel coronavirus (nCoV). Two of the patients died on 3 May 2013 and one is currently in critical condition. The government is conducting ongoing investigation into this outbreak which is linked to one health care facility. Since the beginning of May 2013, a total of 13 patients have been reported from this outbreak, of which seven have died. Of the 13 patients, 10 are men and three women. The age range of the patients are from 24 to 94 years old. From September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a global total of 30 laboratory confirmed cases of human infection with nCoV, including 18 deaths.  Based on the current situation and available information, WHO encourages all Member States (MS) to continue their surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) and to carefully review any unusual patterns. WHO is currently working with international experts and countries where cases have been reported to assess the situation and review recommendations for surveillance and monitoring. All MS are reminded to promptly assess and notify WHO of any new case of infection with nCoV, along with information about potential exposures that may have resulted in infection and a description of the clinical course. WHO does not advise special screening at points of entry with regard to this event nor does it recommend that any travel or trade restrictions be applied. WHO continues to closely monitor the situation.

Health confirms that the spread of HIV in the Kingdom of Corona is limited

...The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Public Health, said the ministry during the past ten days recorded cases of pneumonia in the eastern region specifically in the province of Al-Ahsa were sent an integrated team from the ministry to support the region and review all existing cases in the province have been discovered so far 13 cases died, including 7 people and all These cases related to hospital and one of these cases either were treated in this hospital or in contact with people who were in the same hospital.

And Dr. ميمش stressed that the situation is generally reassuring, as there are five cases under examination of the contacts from the families of people with diagnosed by their state and their situation is stable, note that the source of all HIV infected cases Corona was one hospital, which is dealt with in some hospitals now...
http://www.aleqt.com/2013/05/06/article_753654.html

Health" denies bird flu virus mutation

Monday 06 / May / 2013 - 04:00 pm

Dr. Omar Kandil, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Preventive Medicineroar Abdul Rahman

 

Denied Dr. Omar Kandil and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Preventive Medicine mutated virus of avian influenza , explaining that the rates of infection with the virus safe did not enter danger. came Commenting on the death of the third case, disease bird flu province of Sohag , pointing out that the symptoms of the disease are in cough, sore throat and hotter and pain in some muscles and conjunctivitis. added that in case of deterioration of the situation infected individual problems, severe breathing and the incidence of pneumonia may eventually lead to death, pointing out that the unity of the infection depends on the size of the injury the immune system of humans, where there are no standards for the measurement of bird flu . http://www.vetogate.com/314604#.UYe8AbVwe8A

Ahsa Custody Of The Hospitals Patients Suspected Of Having «Corona» (Follow-Up Firsthand Update On The Spread Of The Disease In Al-Ahsa)

Ahsa Custody Of The Hospitals Patients Suspected Of Having «Corona» (Follow-Up Firsthand Update On The Spread Of The Disease In Al-Ahsa)

05-05-2013 09:19 AM

Rebounds Hsakm, 

The sources confirm that the Directorate of Health Affairs Ahsa is expected to hold a meeting today managers hospitals to maintain, while impounded a number of hospitals on patients with suspected were taking action about it by Tnoém and Hjarham pending the laboratory results about that, still fear is growing in Ahsa of the virus which spread terror in the hearts of families at the injury of one of its members, an increase in temperature, (today) revealed the story of the girl sacrificed "9 years hijacked by death after being struck with the virus, which lacked her classmates in school suddenly after داهمتها heat death while not expect her father Hussein Abdullah Albrahim that communication school him through his mobile phone would signal a prelude to the end of life Vlzp liver, and looked 

All symptoms appear on the sacrificed in the classroom, "according to sources inside the school," adding that the same sources she was suffering from high fever, vomiting, gastro-intestinal during working hours , and decided the school administration to take action regulars about calling her guardian, and has already attended the guardian requesting to be taken, and we were surprised later the news of the death of the student. tells Albrahim the tragedy of his daughter's "Today" where he confirmed that sacrificed in good health before to provide it with term inevitable, pointing out that on Saturday before 
Confirmed the treating physician to be suffering from cramps and will return to normal after treatment, adding that after the passage of time getting the case sacrificed difficulty has not been transferred to the intensive care unit where the condition requiring Zlkalmadi rang his mobile morning by the Department of School Sgerth who died in the blink eye, to tell him immediately to attend school and receive his daughter, who suffers from high heat, arrived to school quickly and transfer 
His daughter to a clinic for and assured the doctor that his daughter's fine after receiving treatment, and that just heat will be lost them after doses of treatment, noting that he had taken his daughter and went out to the home of her grandfather until the date of exit siblings from school, and after the noon prayer he left his children and شقيقتهم diseased sacrificed to home, and is only an hour and a worse case sacrificed to يسعفها in the case of fatigue so severe a clinic for close to home, which in turn Osafha to a hospital birth, children, and was received by the emergency, which is in a difficult situation, pointing out that they have dealt with the case of the child a sense of coldness and indifference, He stressed the treating physician to be suffering from cramps and will return to normal after treatment, adding that after the passage of time getting the case sacrificed difficulty has not been transferred to the intensive care unit where the condition requires it, and after more than 3 hours over time the doctor on duty, resolving instead him in a rosy new doctor of Arab nationality and did his predecessor, and a batch of assurances given us but no change in the health status of my daughter, but getting worse every minute that passes by, 

pointing out that, after that I saw my baby die in front of me, I began to scream to save them and bring the doctor consultant can to save her from this suffering, has been called the doctor Saudi to detect them and asked him about the case of my daughter confirmed it is in a difficult situation and immediately transported doctor Saudi Arabia to the intensive care unit who had died the hours after entering the emergency, pointing out that he did not receive a report of death to this day , calling for opening the investigation into the death of his daughter once overheating, and to take measures to ensure the protection of children in such cases, it showed a number of parents dissatisfaction with the great fear deep lack of official action and concrete steps for the school 25 elementary district Yahya Balhvov, where are requesting sacrificed Brahim taught school in the third grade one of the victims of the virus crowns. 
Sources at the school they had not received any information informally about the death of the student and only the Department of Education to send a team health unit and conduct routine testing which led to resentment parents and fear of the spread of the disease within the school while the administration has taken the school misgivings discretionary about sensitize students to avoid the use of tools of others for the prevention of disease transmission and the need for breakfast the morning and do not come to school in the case of high temperature or feeling tired and need to stay home to rest and even Aazbbn move the infection to other students. 
Iqbal parents to black bean and «المستكة» 
Did not find a large number of people of the province of Hasa what they take precautions and preventive coronavirus only resort to alternative medicine and go to the shops Perfumery for the use of incense and its contents, especially the great demand for black bean "and المستكة" which was confirmed by Attar Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman, who told "Today" : The past two days have seen a great demand by parents to المستكه and black bean and some herbs that are used in incense, came this huge demand for the use of preventive treatment alternative and popular after committed to the health of maintaining silence without showing and describes the most important ways of preventive and curative that can benefit parents to maintain in order to avoid the virus, especially after the big concerns that hit a lot after the emergence of cases and deaths. 

pic and more on suspected dead girl

The sources confirm that the Directorate of Health Affairs Ahsa is expected to hold a meeting today managers hospitals to maintain, while impounded a number of hospitals on patients with suspected were taking action about it by Tnoém and Hjarham pending the laboratory results about that, still fear is growing in Ahsa of the virus which spread terror in the hearts of families at the injury of one of its members, an increase in temperature, (today) revealed the story of the girl sacrificed "9 years hijacked by death after being struck with the virus, which lacked her classmates in school suddenly after داهمتها heat death while not expect her father Hussein Abdullah Albrahim that communication school him through his mobile phone would signal a prelude to the end of life Vlzp liver, and looked All symptoms appear on the sacrificed in the classroom, "according to sources inside the school," adding that the same sources she was suffering from high fever, vomiting, gastro-intestinal during working hours , and decided the school administration to take action regulars about calling her guardian, and has already attended the guardian requesting to be taken, and we were surprised later the news of the death of the student. tells Albrahim the tragedy of his daughter's "Today" where he confirmed that sacrificed in good health before to provide it with term inevitable, pointing out that on Saturday before

Confirmed the treating physician to be suffering from cramps and will return to normal after treatment, adding that after the passage of time getting the case sacrificed difficulty has not been transferred to the intensive care unit where the condition requires itlast rang his mobile morning by the Department of School Sgerth who died in blink of an eye, to tell him immediately to attend school and receive his daughter, who suffers from high heat, arrived to school quickly and transfer

His daughter to a clinic for and assured the doctor that his daughter's fine after receiving treatment, and that just heat will be lost them after doses of treatment, noting that he had taken his daughter and went out to the home of her grandfather until the date of exit siblings from school, and after the noon prayer he left his children and شقيقتهم diseased sacrificed to home, and is only an hour and a worse case sacrificed to يسعفها in the case of fatigue so severe a clinic for close to home, which in turn Osafha to a hospital birth, children, and was received by the emergency, which is in a difficult situation, pointing out that they have dealt with the case of the child a sense of coldness and indifference, 

He stressed the treating physician to be suffering from cramps and will return to normal after treatment, adding that after the passage of time getting the case sacrificed difficulty has not been transferred to the intensive care unit where the condition requires it, and after more than 3 hours over time the doctor on duty, resolving instead him in a rosy new doctor of Arab nationality and did his predecessor, and a batch of assurances given us but no change in the health status of my daughter, but getting worse every minute that passes by, pointing out that, after that I saw my baby die in front of me, I began to scream to save them and bring the doctor consultant can to save her from this suffering, has been called the doctor Saudi to detect them and asked him about the case of my daughter confirmed it is in a difficult situation and immediately transported doctor Saudi Arabia to the intensive care unit who had died the hours after entering the emergency, pointing out that he did not receive a report of death to this day , 

calling for opening the investigation into the death of his daughter once overheating, and to take measures to ensure the protection of children in such cases, it showed a number of parents dissatisfaction with the great fear deep lack of official action and concrete steps for the school 25 elementary district Yahya Balhvov, where are requesting sacrificed Brahim taught school in the third grade one of the victims of the virus kroner.
Sources at the school they had not received any information informally about the death of the student and only the Department of Education to send a team health unit and conduct routine testing which led to resentment of parents and the fear of the spread of the disease within the school while taken the school administration misgivings discretionary about awareness of students to avoid the use of tools of others to prevent the transmission of diseases and the need for breakfast the morning and do not come to school in the case of high temperature or feeling tired and need to stay home to rest and even Aazbbn transfer of infection for students others.

"Corona" is causing panic amid fears of spreading widely .. And demands the intervention of a higher power

Panic covered throughout the Kingdom after the announcement of the Ministry of Health in the injury of seven cases of HIV, "Corona new" During the past few days have focused all in the province of Al-Ahsa, was tragic that five people were among those to have died while still two in intensive care, and did not soon News storm subside even followed another earthquake confirms the death of two of the three other cases have been discovered today, which increased fears that it be harbingers of an epidemic, especially in light of questioning citizens in بتم published assurances by the Ministry of Health. 
moved the case of serious concern to follow the social networking, and adding to the tension that the pattern of infection of human longer a novelty, it has been vaccinated and preventive or effective treatment for the virus; to lead the news all the local media and the Arab world, led by Saudi rankings with this virus dreaded, where screaming "Abdullah bin Qzaaan , "saying:" The virus kills people in Al-Ahsa and the Ministry of Health asleep in honey, "he said, adding:" It is time to resolve this ministry unfortunate citizens' health and lives of neglected ". 
• Corona and the pilgrimage season 
, meanwhile, raised many doubts and the link between the subject and the pilgrimage season and says "there years ":" Every year pilgrims come exotic types of viruses the first time we hear them and leave us and leave the country and we are a victim of our hospitals neglected by the Ministry of Health. " However, the Badr Anzi saw that there are already link between the virus and the pilgrimage season, but on the contrary, saying: "Krona definition: virus has been amplified in the media by the manufacturers of the vaccine on the occasion near the pilgrimage season to sell massive amounts of Amadadath" .. While there has been another kind of linking after انتاب one citizen that coincide with the "all-season pilgrimage graduated rumor epidemic disease (even prevent people from Hajj)" .. He said, adding: "I hope the Saudi media to address these rumors". 
• attack landslide 

The spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Dr. Khalid Marghalani for «East» that is checked contacts and health workers who started treating people infected with Corona, stressing that it will not be conducting any survey last hospitals in the rest of the cities of the eastern region «News Odamam or Jubail» for free from the disease, He added that he and according to global البروتكول from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been conducting medical tests to fifty members of the dealers who started health of patients by a medical team of the Ministry of Health, noting that the tests proved their safety from HIV infection.