Isolation of four men and a woman infected with "Corona virus" corona virus in King Fahd Hospital Ahsa

May 8 2013
Said an official source in the health-Ahsa that
King Fahd Hospital in Al-Ahsa put five people (four men and a woman) in the isolation rooms
yesterday, was locking the gate and prevented any visit or access to them, while criticizing those with
patients delayed the process of insulation that has only yesterday, confirming they visit them a week
ago without any warning. continued «East» with the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health
Khaled Marghalani and sent a fax, but did not find a response, and continued with the official
spokesman for the health of Eastern happiest Saud to ask him why he did not perform tests and obtain
a response to a complaint of patients did not receive response.
  corona virus with rolled complaints about the lack of conditions of isolation in the
rooms allocated to isolate patients with suspected and patients in hospitals in Al-Ahsa, stating that the
suspected infected are placed in the same room results in the survival of microbes in the same room and
the inability to respond to the treatment, in addition to allowing all relatives of suspected visit them
every day without warning or recommendations, as well as the lack of containment room refinery to
purify the adaptation of the bacteria.
As explained a source in the health-Ahsa - who preferred
anonymity - that the insulation in general for all infectious diseases in a building isolated from the
hospital is divided into a destination for men and the other for women, may carry per room more than
one patient and in some cases there are one toilet, noting that the building is small, like the rest of the
sections of the hospital without any advantage. while it did not receive patients in hospitals in Dammam
Central and you, any interaction by doctors despite the emergence of symptoms of disease «Corona»
them, which confirmed the patient Naila Mohammed Qudsi, they suffer from a rise in body
temperature for three days and shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat and I went to hospital Dammam
Central for treatment and taking the necessary analysis the fact that the symptoms are the same as
published by the virus, but when entering the doctor refused to perform analysis and merely giving
nutritious, and spent her medication required for high heat, and showed Qudsi that the symptoms felt
by after Mlazemtha to her father in a hospital as a patient's heart.

 also finished medical procedure toNov Ameri second daughter ten years developing nutritious also Although entry to the hospital in the
case makes it difficult breathing, but the heat also reported did not commit a certain limit, they are
falling and rising rapidly, and confirmed that they do not know why height.

 said Zainab Mohammed it meant Hospital about you three days ago and explained to
them that their body temperature rose suddenly after returning from Al-Ahsa and suffered nausea and
balance, but the hospital settled regardless medicine only, making it mean a أﻓﻘﺪھﺎ dizziness in the head
private hospital in Sayhat in the province of Qatif to view her again for the work necessary analysis
which confirmed its safety, as the rotor was inherent to lower blood, and did not Fitha about the reason
for the high temperature and nausea.

 said citizen Faisal Mohammed Al Bu Hamad said his son The four
years did not go down the temperature for a period of three consecutive days, and the beginning of
hyperthermia inadvertently private hospital Ahsa, but hospital merely Bamove and medicine, a measure
that did not go down with heat of the Child, which led to the intent Hospital Jaffer government,
 which
did not pay for the case of any interest and work him in the beginning of the consideration of the
situation compresses cool in a hospital corridors, and then not hypothermia led to Tnomah and make
his father's accompanist him, but did not see the Al Bu Hamad doctor, but on the first day, and did not
Fit in any Medical tests.
 while assuring brother a suspected Naji repayment, which lay in King Fahd
Hospital Balhvov that since the transfer of his brother to the hospital and her body temperature too
high, and the doctors conduct A number of analyzes it, and has testified that tests sent to the competent
.authority, as conducted by CT scan, and it is still in control of the hospital   http://www.yemeneconomist.com/index.php/health-care-news/39195-corona-virus-ahsa-saudi

Corona corona virus in Abqaiq child aged 11 months

Weds May 8 2013
Discovered the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, the first infected Corona corona virus in
Abqaiq when the province child aged 11 months, and that when he came to the hospital to make a hole
.in the heart
The source, according to the newspaper "East" «The child's family moved from Abqaiq to Riyadh
yesterday the first to make a correct hole in the heart, suffered by the child since birth, and during the making of the necessary tests for the procedure, turned out to be infected with B» Corona »but it
exceeded the stage dangerous . The source indicated that the child suffered about a week ago by a rise
in temperature, as well as diarrhea and vomiting, and his family took him more than once to the hospital
in Abqaiq, and each time the doctors were telling them that he is suffering from signs of teething in
children, without discovering the disease. indicating that the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh
request of the family of the child out of the hospital, and isolated from family members, and their
review for treatment. http://www.yemeneconomist.com/index.php/health-care-news/39194-%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%81-%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A5%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D9%80-%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3-%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7-corona-virus-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%82-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%A9

Contaminated dialysis device behind the spread of the virus, "Corona" in Al-Ahsa

Posted on 08. May, 2013

Al-Ahsa / sources in the medical and health-Ahsa that the main causes of the spread of the virus in a hospital in Al-Ahsa, is pollution devices "dialysis" hospital ..

The sources also announced that among other reasons - monitored by follow-up committees to investigate the circumstances of the spread of the disease - non-compliance with some of the workers at the hospital infection control systems known worldwide.

It is noteworthy that the virus "Corona" had caused the death of 7 people and injuring 6 others during the last two weeks in Al-Ahsa, which caused a state of alert in maintaining health, panic and fear between auditors hospitals.

For his part, a relative of one of the victims of the virus that the neighbor did not suffer from a serious illness when تنويمه in this hospital, except that he was being Gusala كلويا using "artificial kidney" by 3 days a week, and suddenly, told doctors his family a few days before his death that father in critical condition as a result of exposure to the virus ..

The sources said that the 5 others injured inpatients in hospitals in Al-Ahsa and Eastern undergoing intensive treatment within hypnosis rooms, their health status is still unstable.

On the other hand, he visited the Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Mansour bin Nasser Hawasi number of inpatients infected with "Corona", and briefed on the health situation in the governorate and Total Alha? T. that has been inspected, as well as Alha? T. other that have been impounded, and the state of Investigation epidemic in the province, and the actions that have been taken, and the support provided by the ministry.

As Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Qurashi founder of the Saudi Society for neighborhoods Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Head of Department of Applied Medical Sciences at a community college in Najran, he considered the existence of 13 cases in the province of Al-Ahsa of the total cases recorded worldwide by "dangerous", and said that "Corona" of the virus rapidly spreading , and that "the world diagnosed a huge problem, because the virus turns in the form of crystals like salt or sugar granules, and can not deal with him because he left the living to the dead tissue."

He also pointed to the existence of many problems related to the process of health education and awareness, and said, "There are some shortcomings in distant and remote areas with regard to medical services, where major hospitals are concentrated in the major cities only."  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.bab.com/node/181132

"Corona" in a hospital in Al-Ahsa comes because of pollution own devices "dialysis" in the hospita

spread of the virus, "Corona" in a hospital in Al-Ahsa comes because of pollution own devices "dialysis" in the hospital.

The sources added to the health-Ahsa that the follow-up committees attributed the cause of the spread of the virus also to the non-compliance of some of the workers at the hospital infection control systems known worldwide, according to the "homeland."

The Corona virus has caused the death of 7 people and injuring 6 others during the last two weeks in Al- Ahsa, which caused a state of alert in the province and health panic and fear between auditors hospitals.

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workers in the field of health care 
is still no data to prove transmission of the virus from one person to another, including in the working In the field of health care, WHO recommends that workers in the health care sector and contacts of patients with the application of infection control measures the same applied to other cases of severe infection respiratory diseases. 
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but soon What's the situation has changed with the beginning of last April after almost six months where she appeared cases in the province of Al-Ahsa and the number 7, and reached it after confirming the ministry checked, died, including 5 cases and remained two cases, then the ministry surveyed epidemiological hand relatives and take all precautionary measures to Mkhaltin by routers scientific local and global sampling of them, to see if there are cases including, Vakchwna after 6 other cases have died two cases, bringing the number of dead since last April so far 7 people out of 13 cases. 
role of the World Health Organization 
WHO provided - Under the International Health Regulations - Detailed information of the Member States, and proceeded to make contact with concerned countries and international partners to improve its understanding of the risks posed by this virus for public health.The FAO is a firm grasp of coordination activities and provide guidance to health authorities and the technical health agencies, and will provide guidance and support needed to undertake diagnostic laboratory. 
coordination at the international level 
continues to health authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Britain to work for a better understanding about the disease and the source mentality infects the potential injury. The WHO is supporting national authorities in the investigations, has dispatched experts to Saudi Arabia and Qatar within the framework of the formation of an international team. These studies will lead and other future studies for epidemiological and scientific affairs to a better understanding of emerging infections Corona virus. The organization engaged to work with the Ministries of Health and other international partners to coordinate actions relating to detect the disease in a timely manner and to accelerate in the diagnosis and management of mentality infects cases caused by the corona virus emerging, if the need arises. Based on this overall situation, the organization encourages Member States to continue to apply measures in the field of routine surveillance to ensure the firstborn in the disclosure of all potential threats to public health and expedite the response. And ستواظب organization to coordinate international efforts in the field of routine surveillance. Has hastened the international public health community in this event detection, and notified to the WHO under the International Health Regulations (2005).

http://www.m3n4.com/08/05/2013/localnews/112812

First confirmed case of coronavirus in France - Point location and establishment of a hotline

May 8, 2013

  

An acute respiratory infection linked to the new coronavirus (NCoV) was reported at the Institute of Health Surveillance (VS) by the National Reference Center (NRC) at the Pasteur Institute who carried out the virological analyzes. This is the first and only confirmed case in France to this day.

Marisol Touraine, Minister of Social Affairs and Health, held a press conference this morning in the presence of the Director General of Health, Dr. Jean-Yves Grall, the Director of the Institute of Health, Dr. . Françoise Weber, and the head of the National Reference Centre at the Pasteur Institute, Prof. Sylvie van der Werf.
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health launched a thorough epidemiological investigation surrounding this case. According to the first element, as in the vast majority of cases reported by the World Health Organization, the patient contracted the virus during a trip in the Arabian Peninsula, the source has not been specifically identified. All persons in contact with the patient have been or will be contacted.
The Ministry has, since December 2012, put in place the necessary measures to monitor these coronavirus infections. The Directorate General of Health informed the regional health agencies, learned societies, health professionals and the companies support and repatriation. In the event of the occurrence of the event on the French territory, the DGS has also seized the High Council of Public Health (HCSP) that made March 19, 2013 its opinion on the management of patients with suspected infections due to the new coronavirus (HCoV-EMC). InVS posted on its website recommendations to practitioners on the identification of possible cases and laboratory confirmation.

A green public information number will be operational from today 16h 
0800 13 00 00 
and available Monday to Saturday from 9h to 19h (including Thursday, May 9)

For more information:

• Ministry of Social Affairs and Health "Folder coronavirus"
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
• Institute for Public Health Surveillance (VS)

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SARS Coronavirus: first case detected in France, a 65 year old man hospitalized in Douai

First confirmed case of coronavirus in France

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SARS Coronavirus: first case detected in France, a 65 year old man hospitalized in Douai
One case of acute respiratory infection again close the SARS virus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) has been confirmed. The person is hospitalized in the North announced Wednesday, May 8 the Ministry of Health.
EP with AFPPosted on 08/05/2013 | 11:41http://nord-pas-de-calais.france3.fr...ai-247969.html

"What will happen now is the case search contact" (among people who had contact with the patient), says it does the Department of Health.

"The data available to date indicate a possible human transmission of the virus," the ministry said on its website. "However, several factors argue for a relatively low infectivity of the virus," he adds.http://www.nordlittoral.fr/actualite..._en_fran.shtml

According to preliminary information, the patient, who had to stay in the United Arab Emirates from April 9 to 17, is 65 years old. It was "hospitalized in intensive care and placed in solitary confinement," Valenciennes on April 23, before being transferred to hospital in Douai 29, the ministry of Health. An investigation was launched to determine whether persons in contact with patients are also suceptibles to be infected.http://www.europe1.fr/France/Premier...-Sras-1509887/

The patient was hospitalized on April 23 in Valenciennes, Douai and then transferred to 29 April, where he is in intensive care and benefits of "respite care" or respiratory assistance and "blood trade," said Jean-Yves Grall, Director General of Health at a press conference.http://www.lejdd.fr/Societe/Depeches...a-Douai-606282

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Health»: no stone on patients 'Corona' .. Ahsa and the people watching

Health»: no stone on patients 'Corona' .. Ahsa and the people watching بخشية

Relatives of patients telling told Asharq Al-Awsat stories relatives with the disease

Confirm all medical information not clear how patients infection virus 'corona', the World Health Organization classified as of sickle viruses that infect the respiratory tract revealed, medical sources and local «Middle East» the presence of suspected cases infected with HIV «Corona» in more than one hospital in the province of Al-Ahsa (eastern Saudi Arabia), including three cases almost certainly in the King Fahd Hospital in Hofuf , and another case in a private hospital. Despite assurances by the Ministry of Health that the virus is a cause for concern, the residents of Al-Ahsa province (eastern Saudi Arabia) took watching بخشية, the developments that followed the emergence of the virus suddenly, is right in the province 13 people, seven of whom died, according to the Saudi Ministry of Health. The ministry sent Dr. Mansour Hawasi the Deputy Minister of Health for health affairs to the province yesterday; to stand on the actions carried out by hospitals, which recorded cases of HIV infection. At a time in which he talked people with patients with «Middle East» from multiple hospitals that lying where infected with the virus, which is contrary to announcement ministry for limiting the presence of patients to one hospital, explained Dr. Ziad ميمش Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for public health in connection with the «Middle East» yesterday that there are already more than one hospital received cases, however, that the intention of talking about the hospital one is that the source of the virus and one hospital. Commenting «The hospital now receives no case precautionary hypnosis, while foreign clinics work normally. He preferred Dr. ميمش, not to mention the name of the hospital, stressing that the ministry did not take a medical stone to inpatients, and quoted by providing visits with patients. And follow-up and monitoring conducted by the ministry to update the virus, said Dr. ميمش «ministry did not register any new cases than previously announced, where it turns out that the majority of cases detected was hit earlier. Pointing out that the rate of incubation, a period in which force is the disease without causing symptoms are initially recorded 10 days. The head of a family died as a result of HIV infection, and was transferred two of his sons to the intensive care unit after the discovery of infected with the disease, as well as suspicion of injury daughter of the deceased as well. He said Hisham Al Bin Sheikh told «Middle East» that his family lived for days difficult, since his father died as a result of the disease, and make sure injured his two brothers, suspected of wounding his sister (19 years), the disease, pointing out that one of his brothers, an employee in the company «Aramco» left Care Concentrated in the company's Hospital in Dhahran and is currently under observation, but his brother who two years يصغره (31 years) is still in a private hospital in Al-Ahsa and seek treatment in a medical insurance card; he works for a company in the private sector. And the circumstances of his father's illness injury Hisham said: «My father was hypnosis in the hospital for several days, and then left for home, but did not complete the 12 hours until he was returned to the hospital, and there died last». For his part, Mohamed Al Ghanim, a cousin Mokhtar Al Ghanim, a suspect بوفاتهم result «Corona», that his cousin was suffering motor impairment and is supposed to be a curvature in the back and chest, but the appointments were delayed more than once before you get short of breath because of This disease is most likely, and died in a hospital in Al-Ahsa. He pointed out that the neighbor was transferred from a private hospital to JAFR Hospital in the East, and from him to the King Fahd Hospital, where he died at the age of 18 years, pointing out that a study was finished high school last season... ...... In Al-Ahsa, speaking citizens of the feelings of anxiety among parents of this disease, especially because of the similarity of symptoms with other symptoms such as flu, as it appears on the patients symptoms of cold and shortness of breath leads to pneumonia, severe, in addition to inflammation of the kidneys, as described by Dr. Huda Bukhari specialized in internal medicine and infectious diseases. She stressed Dr Bukhari viruses Corona constitute a faction large includes viruses that can cause colds cold, and in some cases can cause AIDS infection severe respiratory syndrome (SARS), noting that the main symptoms of high temperature and the presence of body aches, sore throat, runny, cough, The infection can be transmitted the disease by breathing through exposure to airborne spray that is emitted from the infected person through coughing and through the hands or contaminated surfaces, though he did not prove it conclusively, but this is likely. The Saudi Ministry of Health had made it clear earlier that the National Commission for infectious diseases have not been confirmed to date of the impact of climate change in the region on the spread of HIV Corona, since there are no studies in this regard to confirm this, but it is considered that the incidence of injuries discovered the Saudis in the province of Al-Ahsa specifically in the age group of 24 to 94 years, and this means that have not yet recorded any injury to children with this disease. ..... At the beginning of November (November) last year Saudi Arabia announced the discovery of cases of infection with the virus of a citizen in a hospital in the capital Riyadh, said in a statement: «is suspected in the case of the citizen and conducted tests and analyzes required immediately laboratories Ministry» and added: «similar to the patient to heal after treatment , and his condition is stable, pointing to send a sample of laboratory tests to an external specialist. And then successive declarations of infecting more than one person, until noon on Wednesday 7 injury suffered 3 others in Al-Ahsa. .... The Health Ministry said it had been circulated to all hospitals send samples for testing in the event of suspected in any patient with the same symptoms. Saudi Arabia, which assured the hosts about 6 million people annually for Hajj and Umrah, according to the latest statistics of the Ministry of annual pilgrimage on the granting of the statements of Hajj and Umrah. About it, among health authorities take action in coordination with the Ministry of Hajj require requirement swallow next to Saudi Arabia for Hajj and Umrah vaccines, as well as other procedures are in Saudi Arabia in the event of suspicion in any case, according to Sami Badawoud Director of Health Affairs in Jeddah.  http://aawsat.com/details.asp?sectio...0#.UYmPZLVwe5I __________________

Al-Ahsa: Ali Al-Qattan 

Coronavirus kills 2: OFWs asked to be on the guard

Last updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:18 AM

Saudi Gazette report

JEDDAH — Two more people died of SARS-like virus in Al-Ahsa Tuesday. In view of reports of the recent cases of deaths, the Philippine Embassy has advised all Filipinos to take preventive measures and to learn about the symptoms of the novel coronavirus..

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130508164737

Irus "Corona" Citizens To Pay Hospital Emergency Ahsa

05-07-2013 08:54 AM

Sweeteners - Ahsa News
The number of auditors to hospital emergency departments government-Ahsa, because of rumors spread about the Corona virus, which has become a ghost haunt mothers fear for their children. 
The large numbers of citizens to go to the emergency departments even just to the emergence of high albeit limited in temperature Anciaca behind the rumors, which contributed to the spread of the disappearance of information from the Ministry of Health, also caused fear and panic some parents to take precautions to disclose the maids to make sure of their safety. 
The sources revealed that all hospitals in the province of Al-Ahsa isolation rooms equipped allocated in emergency departments and hypnosis precaution from which to take all the necessary medical procedures in case of suspicion of any case at the direction of "Ahsa health" and ensure the safety of everyone.  http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.hasanews.com/news.php%3Faction%3Dshow%26id%3D34247&usg=ALkJrhhN1z6DYb6np3qI6BRKABvHlScybQ

New infected join the list of 'Corona' ... And 'suspicion' girl left the hospital

Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Joined a new patient, yesterday, to the injured list Pfyrus 'Corona', after laboratory tests showed that he underwent, in a hospital in Al-Ahsa, 'injury'.Recorded in the case of 'suspicion' injury to a girl, directed by Dhuoha from the hospital on their own.
And imposed the Ministry of Health yesterday, «secretive severe» to visit the Deputy Minister Dr. Mansour Hawasi, to Al-Ahsa, a top health official visit to the province since the announcement of the end of last week, the discovery of 7 injuries b «Corona» and the death of two of them, before that number rises to 7 injured and 13 dead.
Well-informed sources told Al-Hayat, that the results of analyzes of suspected wound, he entered the King Fahd Hospital in the city of Hofuf, 'positive'. The injury Pfyrus showed «Corona».

Recorded in the case of 'suspicion' other Eye Hospital, the girl at the age of 12 years, but they are discharged from the hospital at the behest of their loved ones who signed the papers confirming their responsibility for out of the hospital.

The Preventive Medicine Department stepped in health affairs, inspection rounds on the homes of a number of relatives of the injured, sampling them, in order to ensure that no infected with this virus.
Moreover, a number of journalists felt 'disappointment', following the failure of yesterday, at a meeting of Deputy Health Minister of Health Affairs Dr. Mansour Hawasi, by inspecting a number of hospitals in Al-Ahsa. While journalists and the rest of the media, waiting for him to hold a press conference, or meeting, when talking about the virus, which disturbed sleep of parents, and the latest developments around it, but they تفاجؤوا prevented them from approaching him, or any of his companions, or even just photography, central «discreetly severe» on round.

Al «life», that Hawasi, met with managers of hospitals in Al-Ahsa, and officials in the Directorate of Health Affairs, to find out the latest developments on the virus, which killed a number of citizens. "While still others Mnomin in hospital intensive care rooms Ahsa and Dhahran.And continued Hawasi, medical policies and procedures that have been taken. The medical team, Batalall the mechanisms to deal with cases and their contacts. He briefed the senses, health status, and total who has Mainthm, and cases that have been impounded, and the state of the epidemiological investigation in Al-Ahsa, and the actions that have been taken by the 'health Ahsa', and enhancements and support provided by the ministry.

Also stop the Deputy Minister of Health, on sections of medical support services, such as medical laboratory, radiology and other, watched scientifically visual presentation of the health status and medical policies and procedures that have been taken. He also met with Governor of Al-Ahsa Prince Badr bin Jalawi, and briefed him on the health situation in Al-Ahsa, and reviewed the medical policies and procedures taken by the ministry.

While there were reports that round Deputy Health Minister, Al-Ahli Hospital, which included male and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for public health Dr. Ziad ميمش, in a press conference held the day before yesterday, it was' the source of all infected cases.  http://translate.google.com/translat...%2Falhayat.com

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"Ghost Corona" raises panic in Al-Ahsa

the growing number of patients to hospital emergency departments Ahsa Saudi government against the backdrop of public panic that spread in the region for fear of the Corona virus, especially in light of worried parents to their children. And headed for huge numbers of people to emergency departments after noticing a rise in the temperature of the test for fear of the spread of the virus in light of the lack of clarity and transparency on the part of the Ministry of Health. 

The hospitals in the province of Hasa processing equipped with isolation rooms in emergency departments and hypnosis and precautionary measure to take all necessary medical procedures in case of suspicion of any case at the direction of health-Ahsa. 
The case resulted in concern when some parents from adopting the necessary precautions to disclose the maids to make sure of their safety. 
Process currently under way to apply infection control government health facilities and private disclosure, and the suspicion, diagnosis, isolation, and sterilization, in addition to examining health practitioners and contacts of patients. 
And frequency question among parents about the time in which it was decided the implementation of workshops for authorities the government health sector workers and private sectors to strengthen early detection and diagnosis of cases and how to handle them, as well as lectures about the virus in schools. 
And denounced the parents that the location of the Ministry of Health does not deal with the issue effectively and does not provide new information that reassure parents and useful in dealing with concerns. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islammemo.cc%2F

No travel measures despite Saudi SARS-like virus toll

Tuesday, 07 May 2013

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation on Tuesday said there was no need for travel restrictions in Saudi Arabia as the death toll from a SARS-like virus there rose to 11, but urged international vigilance.

 

"WHO does not advise special screening at ports of entry with regard to this event, nor does it recommend that any travel or trade restrictions be applied," Glenn Thomas, a spokesman for the UN health agency, told reporters in Geneva.

 

"Based on the current situation and available information, WHO encourages all member states to continue their surveillance for severe, acute respiratory infections and to carefully review any unusual patterns," he added.

 

Since the start of May, Saudi Arabia has reported to WHO seven deaths among 13 new cases of novel coronavirus, taking the number of fatalities there to 11 since last year.

 

Two people with the disease known in medical jargon as nCoV-EMC died on Friday and one was in critical condition.

 

"Of the 13 patients, 10 are men and three are women. The age range of the patients is from 24 to 94 years old," said Thomas.

 

"The Saudi Arabian government is conducting ongoing investigations into this outbreak, which is linked to one healthcare facility in Al-Ahsaa," he added, referring to the oil-rich Gulf region near Bahrain and Qatar.

 

Since the virus was recorded in September 2012, the total number of cases reported worldwide has hit 30, including 18 deaths, Thomas said.

 

While it has been deadliest in Saudi Arabia, other cases have been reported in Jordan, Germany and Britain.

 

It is a cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which triggered a scare 10 years ago when it erupted in east Asia, leaping to humans from animal hosts and eventually killing some 800 people. (AFP)

 http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/latest-news/236048-no-travel-measures-despite-saudi-sars-like-virus-toll.html

     

The World Health Organization reported that there are 23 confirmed cases in Saudi Arabia and two in Qatar, two in Jordan and two in Britain and the situation in the United Arab Emirates.http://arabic.arabianbusiness.com/society/healthcare/2013/may/7/330773/#.UYj9zbVwe5I

total in SA IS 20 SO FAR

The discovery of 20 cases of coronavirus infection in Ahsa eastern Saudi Arabia

Wrote: ASHA

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 13:53

Many residents rushed Hassa region east of Saudi Arabia to hospital emergency departments after he heard about the discovery of several injuries in their deadly corona virus, which infects the respiratory tract.

Citizens are directed to emergency departments even just the appearance of even limited rise in temperature in situations of panic that struck many people, especially parents fearing for their children.

Informed sources revealed to the newspaper «Today» Saudi Arabia that all hospitals in the province of Al-Ahsa

Isolation rooms are equipped allocated in emergency departments and hypnosis is a precautionary measure from which to take all the necessary medical procedures in the case of any suspected case at the direction of health-Ahsa and ensure the safety of everyone.

And causing fear and panic some parents to take the necessary precautions to disclose the maids to make sure their safety, and the Health Affairs Saudi Arabia to pursue minutes to activate the infection control installations government and private health disclosure, and the suspicion, diagnosis, isolation, and sterilization, as well as to examine the health practitioners and contacts of patients, and demanded that citizens organize several workshops for the government health sector workers and private sectors to strengthen early detection and diagnosis of cases and how to deal with them, along with lectures about the virus in schools.

The agent said the Saudi Ministry of Health, Dr. Ziad Ahmed ميمش in his remarks today - that "all cases detected in the world of corona virus disease are 30 cases, including 20 cases in Saudi Arabia."...

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Eighth The MBC Addresses Reason Outbreak Of Alchorna Virus-Ahsa Evening

07-05-2013 10:12 AM

Rebounds Hsakm exposure evening distinctive ring of rings the "eighth" on channel MBC providing Broadcaster known Dwaod artery examines the reasons for the outbreak and spread of tame Koruna in the Governor-Ahsa and looking for reasons for its spread and responsibility of the public health and civil in it and the extent of negligence that caused the shift of the disease into a state of fear and panic among the inhabitants of Al-Ahsa. 
Hosting has been the victim Mohammed Hassan Sheikh & Sons will be touched by what we got from the news about the responsibility of a hospital for the deaths and the spread of the disease. 
It is expected that impair Episode Harih great attention of the population of the Kingdom of public and private Mfg what might come out of the news and surprises. 

China bird flu strain can't cause pandemic ... yet: CDC

Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the current strain of bird flu that is causing illness and deaths in China cannot spark a pandemic in its current form - but he added that there is no guarantee it will not mutate and cause a serious pandemic.

In an exclusive interview at the Reuters Health Summit in New York, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, said more than 2,000 people have been in contact with infected individuals, and only a handful have become ill.

Virtually all of the rest have had direct contact with poultry, the identified cause of the virus.

"This particular virus is not going to cause a pandemic because it doesn't spread person-to-person," Frieden said. "But all it takes is a bit of mutation for it be able to go person-to-person."

"I cannot say with certainty whether that will happen tomorrow, within 10 years or never."

The new strain of bird flu known as H7N9, which began infecting people in February, has so far sickened at least 127 people and killed 27. [ID:nL6N0DI22M] According to the latest CDC estimates, the flu kills about 20 percent of the people it infects.

The United States has been working closely with Chinese health officials, and has recently distributed test kits to detect this new strain of flu, which has never before appeared in humans.

Tests by Chinese health officials have found the virus in chickens, ducks and pigeons, but Frieden said it is not yet clear how the virus spreads in birds.

New strains of flu present a threat because if they do become easily transmissible, they might quickly spread around the globe, attacking individuals who have no natural defense against the virus.

The CDC has activated its Emergency Operations Center to monitor the disease and currently has 193 staff working on H7N9. "We've got a team working in China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam," he said.

Frieden said there are several factors that make this particular virus especially worrisome.

An analysis of the genetic code of the virus shows that it has receptors that bind to the lower respiratory tract of people, much like the more familiar bird flu strain known as H5N1. "That is why it's causing severe disease," Frieden said.

But it also has receptors that bind to the upper respiratory tract of people, which may explain why it is more transmissible from birds to people than H5 appears to be, he said.

And unlike H5N1, which caused severe disease in poultry, this new virus does not, which may make it more difficult to control because researchers will not be able to cull poultry flocks.

Frieden said even with H5, it took 18 months from the emergence of the virus until the 100th case. By comparison, it took only about one month from the emergence of H7 until the 100th case.

"If you look at the geographic spread of H5, within a couple of years it was all over Asia, into Africa, into the Middle East," he said.

Frieden said he cannot predict what the spread of H7 will be in birds, though he said he is concerned it may be quite wide.

"If there is evolution in the virus, it could go person-to-person, and that could cause severe pandemic."

Other observers agree that this flu strain is not a pandemic threat, noting that infection rates have slowed in recent weeks, due in part to aggressive moves by the Chinese government to kill off potentially infected flocks of poultry.

"At this point, there is no good evidence that this particular virus will be the next pandemic strain," said Peter Palese, chair of the microbiology department at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.

Palese said many more tests need to be done on the virus, which he believes was detected through improved surveillance efforts in China.

He said the 20 percent mortality rate could reflect high levels of exposure among those who have inhaled large quantities of infectious particles, suggesting the deaths may be related to a "dosage effect" rather than a highly infectious virus.

In the United States, the CDC has developed and distributed H7N9 test kits, given to states and to several countries.

Frieden said the agency is working on flu vaccines for the virus and clinical trials could begin in the summer.  http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/05/06/us-summit-cdc-idUKBRE9450JM20130506

«Ghost Corona» push the citizens of Al-Ahsa to emergency departments

Hamza Bovhad, Mohammed Al Owais, Rania Al Abdullah Al-Ahsa

07/05/2013 - 03:00:00

 

The number of auditors to hospital emergency departments Ahsa government because of fears and rumors circulating about the Corona virus, which has become a ghost haunt mothers fear for their children.The large numbers of citizens to go to the departments of emergency even just to the emergence of high albeit limited in temperature Anciaca behind the rumors, which contributed to the spread of the disappearance of information from the Ministry of Health, and the sources for the "Today"

that all hospitals in the province of Hasa allocated rooms isolate equipped in emergency departments and hypnosis is a precautionary measure from which to take all measures necessary medical in case of suspicion of any case at the direction of health Ahsa and ensure the safety of everyone, causing fear and panic some parents to take the necessary precautions to disclose the maids to ensure their safety and learned the "Today" that the health affairs to pursue minutes

To activate infection control installations government and private health disclosure, and the suspicion, diagnosis, isolation, and sterilization, as well as to examine the health practitioners and contacts of patients, and demanded that citizens organized several workshops for workers in the health sector public and private sectors to promote early detection and diagnosis of cases and how to handle them, as well as providing lectures on virus in schools. still a large number of parents are waiting for something to offer the Department of Education in collaboration with the health\\

Asked citizens to organize several workshops for workers in the health sector public and private sectors to strengthen early detection and diagnosis of cases and how to handle them, as well as lectures about the virus in schoolsMfg toward practical preventive and awareness appropriate for students in schools in the province in order to reassure everyone on the status of the virus means appropriate preventive which must to follow after that showed a lot of parents fear big from this virus. it criticized the citizens of non-interaction site of the Ministry of Health with the case properly, where there are still information is old and is updated on a daily basis,

noting that the ministry did not communicate with the community and educate people about the virus Aspects emerging in a simplified manner up to the citizen, where should focus on personal care, demanding pursuing style WHO which showed FAQ as stated to reports of the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia,

which did not send a message awareness one but left the society drowning in rumors without clarification or attention, demanding step process fast as it did Aramco, which in turn hastened awareness campaign for community company in a scientific and updated daily immediately after the announcement of the emergence of the disease in Al-Ahsa, and pointed out the people that the situation is in urgent need of the campaign will be similar to a campaign of avian influenza and transmit messages daily through all channels of communication available written, visual, and audio, and programs of social networking.

to this, the "Today" calling the 20 schools of the surveyed about their preparations and awareness programs and health provided to the students about the virus, "crowns" where Abano all of them that they did not receive any guidance or information about the disease, demanding school health move quickly to deal with their fears. 
They revealed that hotels and furnished apartments in Mfg experienced a decline and occupancy rate reached 20 percent two references that relative to the reluctance of tourists by the Gulf states as a result of what recounted by the media of panic and fear of the spread of the virus, "Karuna".

School students confirmed for 'Today' disappearance disease Information

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