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Sunday, May 25, 2014

It’s all systems go for school examinations


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Exams commence today across the Kingdom, quelling speculation that the Education Ministry would change exam dates this year due to the coronavirus.
Jeddah was calm over the weekend ahead of the exams, Over 259,000 students will sit the exams in the city alone. Of them, there are roughly 145,000 middle-school students and 114,000 secondary school students, according to the Education Ministry.
Both the Education and Higher Education Ministries have made elaborate arrangements for the examinations across the Kingdom.
Jeddah’s traffic police have deployed additional patrols to control traffic, while medical teams will visit examination centers to render medical care where needed... http://www.riyadhvision.com/2014/05/25/systems-go-school-examinations/

Cooperation» decides to join efforts to combat «Corona»



Date Published: Monday, May 26, 2014
The Conference recommended that the seventh and seventy of the Council of Ministers of Health Gulf Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States in Geneva yesterday to continue to raise the degree of epidemiological surveillance and emergency to combat infectious diseases, emergency and enhance readiness and basic capabilities to deal with updated national action plans, and that the private sector play a positive role in the fight against HIV «Corona» and the need to rehabilitate more national laboratories in the GCC countries for the diagnosis of HIV and other dangerous viruses Alobaúaj..  http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alittihad.ae%2Fdetails.php%3Fid%3D46574%26y%3D2014

German expert settle the debate about the 6 samples for "Corona" and confirms the positive infected



German expert settle the debate about the 6 samples for Corona and confirms the positive infected


Said the German expert in virology Professor "Christian Dorsten" positive samples 6, Jeddah Regional Laboratory was proved infected with "Corona", while the government hospital confirmed the safety of HIV infection, which confirms the validity of the results of tests performed in the laboratory of Jeddah Regional.
According to the newspaper "Okaz", the lab Jeddah Regional had conducted tests for 44 cases and proved to be positive all, while he was a government hospital confirmed negative injuring six of them, propagated the use Balbrovsaor Dorsten, who is visiting the Kingdom these days, part of a delegation of experts to find out the latest developments "Corona" confirmed positive samples of the six injured.
He also stressed the German expert safety procedures in the laboratory for examination Arabia and compliance with the standards and requirements of the World Health Organization, noting efficiently working in these laboratories and their ability to deal with the virus, "Corona."  http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hasanews.com%2Fc-58405%2F

Forty More Pig Farm Samples Positive for Porcine Delta Corona Virus

Forty More Pig Farm Samples Positive for Porcine Delta Corona Virus

22 May 2014
US - Porcine Delta Corona virus (PDCoV) has been detected in 185 samples from pig farms in 14 states since testing began in March 2014.
For the latest weekly report - for the week of 10 May in a report dated 15 May from the USDA Animal Health Inspection Service and made available by the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) - 40 pig farms (termed "swine accessions") have tested positive for the PDCoV, bringing the cumulative total to 185.
The National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) began collating testing data on PDCoV for the week of 30 March 2014. So far, 1,347 accessions have been tested, 243 in the most recent week reported, so the overall percentage found positive is 14 per cent.
No new states have reported one of more positive accessions in the latest week and so the total remains at 14 (Table 1 and Figure 1)... http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/36696/forty-more-pig-farm-samples-positive-for-porcine-delta-corona-virus

Hanoi increases surveillance for Mers virus

 25/05/2014
 The Hanoi Health Department has intensified health checks and inspections at Noi Bai International Airport in the face of the complex development of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) in the world.

The department has asked the international health quarantine centre in collaboration with state management agencies at the airport to closely monitor planes and passengers entering the country through Noi Bai airport, especially those from the disease-hit places.

Medical checks and preventive measures should be taken promptly to suspected MERS victims at the airport in order to avoid the disease from spread, said the department.

The centre has currently set up two measure body temperatures at the airport.

According to Head of the Preventive Health Department Tran Dac Phu, no case of MERS-CoV has been detected in Vietnam, so far.

The country is working with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and international organisations to keep strict monitoring of agents causing the disease, Phu said.

From September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 496 laboratory-confirmed cases of infections with MERS-CoV worldwide.

The organisation encouraged all its member nations to continue their surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections and to carefully review any unusual patterns.-VNA http://en.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Hanoi-increases-surveillance-for-Mers-virus/20145/50584.vnplus

Undiagnosed pneumonia in Yemen

Yemen /

Doctors in terms of symptoms, there is no difference between him and virus Aokrona

Date Published: 05/25/2014
Ramallah - minimum home - Akram Akaddahi
Dali deaths and injured more than 300 people believed to be Pfyrus Aokrona and fears and pleas to curb the spread of the disease more broadly

Viral pneumonia so classify doctors who Cdo it's viral, not bacterial, as is usual in the analysis of lung infections and bacterial testing laboratory, which always Matjd ratio inflammation specific and vary from one case to another, and the ratio of infection between 1000 to 20,000, 
 or more than that, either pneumonia rampant in this days at the analytical laboratory result is that the respiratory sound and free from any disease whatever the language of the situation dangerous and that's why classifies Balverosa 
addition to its rapid spread and transmitted from one person to another mere injured person goes to all members of the family and the village and assured the doctors that the symptoms of this virus are compatible with symptoms of virus Corona widespread in Saudi Arabia, but the lack of possibilities and make them modern laboratory equipment and Athvdon They can not rule it Is Hua virus Aokorohna or jealousy, and appealed to the concerned authorities to do their duty and provide mutatis and put an end to the alarming spread of this contagious virus.

The poll was in one of the areas Dali infected with the virus, an area (Hkaa) in the Directorate of the hippocampus.

There is no difference between him and Aokrona virus but we can not characterize that kind of lack of possibilities


Dr / Bushra Saleh Hamoud Specialist

I spoke to us of saying this metastatic disease these days Hua is a pneumonia caused by the virus is not a bacterial infection there are many cases which come in abundance daily Nlahoud that several members in one house or the same family have the disease, the symptoms of this disease comes the patient complains of symptoms of colds and redness in the eyes, frequent sneezing and coughing gradually symptoms begin increasing day by day until it reaches the stage that the heat Atensl them permanently, and some kids and a lot of kids Rahu in some cramps and some diseases patients in the Baltic breathing Vicu have great difficulty in breathing, especially children and through Maintna them , and the work of laboratory tests, we found that as a result of this inflammation Hua viral infection,
 but when looking ÇíÔ type virus Angdr determine the type of the fact that we are working in rural and possibilities too weak in Hkaa Fuller Dali in general and this did not appreciate determine the type of the virus,
 
 but Kataba we only address the symptoms of the disease preliminary we proceed to attempt Download temperature and try to spare the patient some of the complications of the disease in some cases, be insurmountable and income in multiples and we transfer to hospitals both in hospitals Dali or some hospitals in Aden either case the second be indented in the disease we can treat it by treating the symptoms, secondly by Avoid family to avoid any person with this disease job by advising the family that separate him from the rest of the family to avoid the spread of the disease among all members of the family such as Hua holds in some families secondly through nutrition advise the family good nutrition and intake of vitamin C, oranges, lemons and other such Wallachia along to give some of the injured stimulant medications, especially children.

We found that it was the beginning of the month of April to today 90% of the cases either pregnant or ordinary women or children at all ages get her this disease find that all the family members, father and mother of the Son and of the child infected with the disease.
  Secondly, the disease spreads is terrible very happy we are trying to underestimate this disease and hope of health Raja they Alahoudo to the spread of this disease in the area of ​​Dali or other provinces and give him the bulk of their attention to the fact that there are in Saudi Arabia, for example, diffuse disease Koruna we are forced to be looking
 
 Is this virus rampant these days, the result of a virus Corona we ask the Ministry of Health and health departments attention, especially in the rural areas and provide possible means and Aat doctors who are in the countryside to Maljh these cases, we find it difficult too in the treatment of some cases, some of them appreciate the treatment and others we can not work in front of anything and we are turning to the cities due to lack of equipment 
crisis for Living situation economical in the countryside to the fact that the per capita income in the countryside is very weak we had a case infected with this virus and we have to transfer to the capital of Aden and then died there and Hua man in 28 years.

Recommend to all the sons of Dali when injury to any person with the virus or the presence of symptoms speed shift to hospital Secondly, avoid contact with the victim and Alndhafah personal and public, and sterilization of the tools used by an infected person and not to be used only for the patient, good nutrition and other foregoing.

My message to the Ministry of Health and the speed-subscribers Raja study this virus and disclosed so that we can treat and reduce its spread in the community in general.

It adds Dr if we we compare between the virus Aokrona widespread in Saudi Arabia and the virus spread in Dali these days Nlahoud that Medm symptoms are similar but the door of confirmation Is this virus Aokorohna We candor by clinical examination Nlahoud he viral disease but Reducing interval in order to know whether this is the Koruna or other it through laboratory analysis and we are no in Yemen us all sophisticated tests for proof for the virus Hua Aokrona The symptoms are the same symptoms but no difference at all between this virus and Llacurona.

There are deaths from the virus and a large number of patients who take them every day


Dr / Habib Ali publisher

At first thank you for your attention and the performance of your media honestly and for your attention to this human side and the effort to serve the people of Dali, but for the pneumonia spread in Dali Hua viral pneumonia, and just uteri or the person is transmitted to all members of the family and after that we received a lot of cases infected with the disease we did many of the medical tests and we found out it was a viral infectious and spreads with frightening speed between the circles sons region Hkaa and Dali,
 and we received a lot of cases during this month and we do what is needed and thankfully dealt with many cases and Astash we have some cases were few and we have to transfer to hospital In Dali, Aden, and in one case died in Aden and Hua young intellectual Muhammad Ali Muraysi 28-year-old virus spread is no difference between him and virus Aokrona widespread in Saudi Arabia in terms of the symptoms of the disease and I we can not to judge you Hua Aokorohna or not because of lack of modern equipment both in Dali , or other provinces.

We appeal to the international-subscribers immediately intervene and send medical teams to preview the patients and determine the type of virus


Lawyer Nabil Haj infected with the virus with members of his family:

Talked to us and said, I am one of the sons of the area Hkaa hippocampus extend my sincere thanks to Altfataatkm good and the transfer of the suffering of the people and Ienoh in Hkaa and hippocampus and Dali and I am one of those with the disease of viral two weeks ago, which affects the respiratory system and causes an increase body temperature, cough, pneumonia and acute Hua infectious disease has been injured by hundreds and caused Bova person, as well as cramps for some children as a result of the high temperature note that the Ministry of Health and government authorities did nothing, we are through you appeal to-subscribers international urgent intervention and sending medical teams to preview the patients and determine the type of the virus and treat the injured and to fulfill our duty of humanitarian them.

The virus has infected all my family members until you are I feel in the clinic and not in the home

Um Saqr infected with the virus

Over more than half a month and I still infected with the highly contagious disease that seemed Basapti then moved to my children and my husband and some of my relatives until I feel I am at home I am in the clinic and not in the home of the severity of coughing and sneezing and squealing snoring, convulsions, Baka children and adults inside the house night and day so that this disease or the virus as rated by doctors that affects the respiratory system and is difficult for the patient's breathing, cough and sneeze dry without descent and high heat in the body and severe pain in the joints and Dahr, chest and feet accompanied by cold very often and clogging of appetite accompanied by valuable, we visited many hospitals in Dali In Aden, but without The utility has declined to give me many of the doctors of medicine because I am pregnant and here I am bedridden Antdhar mercy of Almighty God that he Maizhae Kadeer on either my children have Tmathlo to heal thankfully has improved thanks to their cases.

A death from Swine flu, NOT #Corona..they say..

05/25/2014 09:16:27

"Swine flu" caused a crisis between the pair nurse "Eastern" and "health"


Swine flu has caused a crisis between the pair nurse and Eastern Health

Rebounds - Ahsa News
 


Lie behind Anzi, the husband of the deceased nurse Nawal Al-Anzi dawn the day before yesterday in the King Fahd Medical Complex in Dhahran, what was said by the Directorate General of Health Affairs in the Eastern Province that his wife's death due to swine flu.

The pair that error medically killed his wife, referring to "the city" in its edition of Sunday (May 25, 2014), that his wife was suffering from pneumonia, mild, and high temperature, adding that he went out to the hospital to take the necessary treatments.

He stressed that after 7 days Tnoimha decision was in the hospital, and then entered the intensive care because they have a drop in oxygen, pointing out that it has entered intensive care, and the next morning I called him to tell him the hospital administration that his wife died.

The pair revealed that his wife died of a brain about 10 days before her death, pointing out that the doctors have decided to install a new breathing apparatus, and they reported that the probability of occurrence of bleeding her, assuring him that the device has a certain success rate. He said: "After the installation happened to her bleeding in the brain, and died of a brain."

With regard infected with swine flu, said, "Anzi" that doctors assured him they sound from the swine flu, and healed them 100%, pointing out that after attempts to move them to the Tabuk region refused to do so citing infected with swine flu, and difficult to move.

In turn, the Spokesman pointed to the health of Eastern Khaled Usaimi to death Nawal Al-Anzi were not due to the virus, Corona, and that the cause of death is swine flu, according to a report King Fahd Complex medical which they occurred death, because the virus infections Corona be announced via the website of the Ministry of Health made a statement official immediately with full transparency.

Regarding the accusations of the pair that error medically caused her death, said Usaimi: "This is something completely different, in the event of a medical error there Shariah Committee health check in such cases after the submission of the complaint and the evidence, and are investigating the case, and take the necessary actions."  http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hasanews.com%2Fc-58397%2F%23.U4HfhyhhuSo


Saudi student dies from H1N1

Dammam, 4 hours, 31 minutes ago

A nursing college student has died in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province after contracting swine flu (H1N1) virus, a report quoting health officials said.

The death of the female student is the first caused by the H1N1 virus in two years, said the Arab News report.

The Health Ministry has announced one more death due to Mers virus and four infections on Saturday.

“While the student tested negative for the coronavirus, her tests came back positive for the H1N1 virus,” health officials said.  http://www.tradearabia.com/news/HEAL_258766.html

"The markets are open ... No new cases of Ebola in Télimélé! ", Says the prefect, Souleymane Camara Mouloukou

Sun May 25, 2014, 11:39  

In a telephone interview with Guineenews Sunday morning, the prefect of Télimélé confirmed that the markets were not finally closed.

"The market is not closed. Indeed, in my absence, the crisis committee had decided to close markets to minimize the risk of contamination through contact. But officials Doctors Without Borders (MSF) arrived here with a psychologist advised us to do so. You know that these NGOs, MSF, WHO and others have a long experience in managing such cases. So they said the closure of markets can create psychosis and amplify risks, "said the Prefect Souleymane Camara Mouloukou.
According to the prefect of these NGOs and Télimélé Plan Guinea brought beyond advice, chlorine solutions for hygienic provisions are made in the major centers for disinfection.
In addition, a conveyor of the Ministry of Social Action landed yesterday (Saturday) to Horé Loûbha cartons of soap, kettles, buckets with lids, gloves, over-water, etc.. "We expect the delegation of donors to deliver these materials to beneficiaries," said the prefect of Télimélé.
What could Télimélé nationals living outside, Mr. Souleymane Camara Mouloukou recalled that victims need to be helped. "We need to help the families of the victims through counseling and even financial and material aid. Nowadays, people who were concerned about what to eat may be stigmatized, etc.." Said the prefect.
To remember that no new cases are reported from the first samples that confirmed the contamination of Ebola two patients currently undergoing treatment. Pending completion of the incubation period of 21 days, 41 contacts are being followed which children under two years of the late third ...

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Air conditioners may transfer corona virus
Air conditioners may transfer corona virus

»» Rely on air circulation inside the cabin .. specialist for the day:

Air crashes aircraft transmits the virus «Corona»

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Revealed a specialist in the field of aeronautical engineering for "Today" that the civil aircraft depends on the principle of recycling cab air and pump adapted, so as to relieve the load on the engine, pointing to the high probability of transmission of HIV syndrome Middle East respiratory "Corona" when crashes HVAC systems in the plane.
The flight engineer Hassan Bin Mansour: "relies most (if were not all) civil aircraft business to recycle cab air and pumped adapted thereafter, so as to relieve the load on the motor, which pulls them air and enters into a complex process of filtration and cooling until it is ready to pump refrigerated compartment (passenger cabin), and noted that the primary source of air conditioner is the engine, have adopted the technology recycling cab air and use 37% to 50% in general, and so as I said, to ease the load on the engine and saving fuel mainly.
"The air is withdrawn from the Shabak button below along both sides of the cab (a place to sit next to the window under the left foot for« Wright »grille that extends along the cab, which pulls cab air in preparation for recycling), where the air is pulled through the clamp mentioned in point No. 3 , and passes on the filter is called the HEPA Filter and which purifies the air of impurities and even bacteria, viruses, micro, which up to 0.01 microns, and this of course includes avian influenza viruses and virus Corona, for illustration only HEPA means High Efficiency Particulate Air or filter The high efficiency of objects infinitesimal.
And about the possibility of injury if McCann is possible if someone is sick in the aircraft cabin, said: "I believe as possible if the pressure generated by the leaching high and exceeds the mechanical air intake, which is below and brought the spray to a remote location, especially if you do not cover the patient's nose or mouth, But thanks to God remain probabilistic weaker than the place is closed and there is no drag and recycling of air as it is located by plane (small room, bus, etc. ....), as the probability of infection of course very high in the plane in my opinion if the air conditioning system to hang.
The virus Corona covers a wide range of types of viruses that can cause colds, and in some cases can cause a syndrome of acute respiratory infections (SARS), and in most cases of infection with this virus the symptoms are similar, such as high fever, body aches, sore throat, and was nominated and cough, and in most cases these symptoms persist for two days and then disappear.
The Ministry of Health with the World Health Organization to find out more medical information about this virus, and include ways of transmission of types (Corona) other influenza in general include: direct transmission through droplets from the patient during coughing or sneezing, and the transition is direct through touching surfaces and objects contaminated with the virus, and then touching their mouth or nose or eye, and direct contact with the patients, and the possibility of transmission through infected camels and bats.  http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alyaum.com%2FNews%2Fart%2F141331.html

Saudi Health: No cure for'' Corona'' yet

24-05-2014 01:43 PM
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The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia awareness messages published through various means, he did not discover the cure for HIV Corona yet.

The ministry warned in letters from drifting behind these rumors promoted by crooks looking for a personal interest.

The ministry said it is closely following all the global efforts in the fight against the virus, and coordinate with the World Health Organization, and promised to publish all the information curative and preventive official that contribute to, God willing, in the fight against this disease.

It is reported that recently spread news about the discovery of chemical drugs and medical help in the healing of the Corona virus attributed to some American universities and other universal. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gerasanews.com%2Findex.php

Jordan Health: Lab results for 28 samples did not show any injury CZK


Laboratory tests showed the Ministry of Health on Saturday negative results (ie, non-registration of injuries) for a sample of 28 public hospitals and 7 private suspected cases infected with coronavirus.

Includes samples, 18 samples of contact with an infected case recorded yesterday evening in one of the public hospitals.

The director of communicable diseases at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Mohammed Abdullat in a statement to Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the injured and the old 69-year-old suffering from high pressure and diabetes and is now being treated.

He added that teams from the Directorate of communicable diseases in collaboration with the Health Directorate of the capital after the injury proved investigate her contacts at home and among health staff and coordination with the hospital to double infection control measures.

He explained that the total number of injuries has risen to become the 10 cases recorded since the first case of the virus in Jordan in 2012 died, including five cases. (Petra)

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Health: Lab results for 28 samples did not show any injury CZK


Hardiness News - Jordan News -
Laboratory tests showed the Ministry of Health on Saturday negative results (ie, non-registration of injuries) for a sample of 28 public hospitals and 7 private suspected cases infected with coronavirus.

Includes samples, 18 samples of contact with an infected case recorded yesterday evening in one of the public hospitals.

The director of communicable diseases at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Mohammed Abdullat in a statement to Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the injured and the old 69-year-old suffering from high pressure and diabetes and is now being treated.

He added that teams from the Directorate of communicable diseases in collaboration with the Health Directorate of the capital after the injury proved investigate her contacts at home and among health staff and coordination with the hospital to double infection control measures.

He explained that the total number of injuries has risen to become the 10 cases recorded since the first case of the virus in Jordan in 2012 died, including five cases. (Petra)

CZK new infections in the University Hospital

Date: 24/05/2014

The director of health care at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Bashir short on Friday night, Saturday, injuring a citizen Steny disease Koruna in the Jordan University Hospital.

A short that laboratory tests confirmed that the citizen sixtieth virus 'corona' and enter the hospital Aljtmah Jordan, where proceeded health care teams do quarantine precautionary isolated case, after placing patient department isolation and intensive care for the purpose of adjusting the deployment of infection and provide the necessary medical care.
He added that the short incubation period of the virus exist Corona human body after suffering from 2-14 days, stressing that the number of cases that have been proven by the disease until Friday evening is the 10 cases, stressing that 5 people have died succumbed to the disease.

He advised the short citizens more prevention, caution and follow the means of infection control and try to stay away from places Elms Dhma and use napkins when you sneeze and cough and advised to get rid of napkins dumped bags of trash aphid, and wash your hands as a precautionary measure that was forced to shake hands after the meet people likely to take them to the infection, also called Dr cleared hands and surfaces used.  http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.kermalkom.com/more.php%3Fnewsid%3D99385%26catid%3D34&usg=ALkJrhgCaO174E30B1UkYW0J2Nqob2QAnA

Suspected cases of MERS investigated in Virginia

Suspected cases of MERS investigated in Virginia

by Lucy Bustamante, 13News Now
WVEC.com
Posted on May 21, 2014 at 1:41 PM
Updated Thursday, May 22 at 6:12 AM

RICHMOND -- State health officials are investigating whether several Virginians may have been exposed to Middle East respiratory syndrome or MERS.
Dr. Laurie Forlano, the deputy state epidemiologist with the Virginia Department of Health, tells 13 News Now that they are monitoring "several" Virginians who were on airplanes and may have come into contact with people who were sick.
She stresses that no cases have been confirmed in Virginia and they’re keeping track of each region of the state, including Hampton Roads.
Dr. Forlano says "If a doctor suspects that their patient may have MERS, they have to notify the local health department. The Virginia Department of Health then works with clinicians to determine whether testing for MERS is necessary."
It takes anywhere from 24-48 hours to get results from those tests.
Three people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with MERS: a man in Orlando, Florida, one in Indiana and one in Illinois.
Overall, about 600 people worldwide have had the respiratory illness and about 175 people have died.
Dr. Forlano says she has faith that the military is currently working on future vaccinations for American service members who travel to the Arabian Peninsula.
A Portsmouth Naval spokesperson tells 13News Now they have not heard of a vaccine being created for MERS, but they have developed a test for it. 
Meantime, the US Navy Bureau of Medicine & Surgery tweeted at 12:20 p.m. "Military treatment facilities @USNavy & @USMC Public Health Center released guidance on #MERSCoV."  Click here to read that information.
MERS belongs to the coronavirus family that includes the common cold and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. It was first reported in 2012 in Saudi Arabia.
Health officials say there is no vaccine or cure and there's no specific treatment except to relieve symptoms, which include fever, cough and shortness of breath. Not all those exposed to the virus become ill.

Low numbers who wish to perform Umrah Ramadan around 50%


Low numbers who wish to perform Umrah Ramadan around 50%
Decreased the number of applicants to perform Umrah during the holy month of Ramadan, by up to 50% compared to the corresponding numbers in the past years, according to the newspaper for Union managers and representatives of the campaigns for the Hajj and Umrah.
And behind so many reasons, the most important information about the spread of HIV Coruna in Saudi Arabia.
The managers said the campaigns told the newspaper that "the decline in demand negatively affected campaigns, and has some of the campaigns, promotional offers, but the demand for the limited lose my step influence, was associated with the reduction in the prices of some services in Saudi Arabia, but it did not live up to the required level."
Officials demanded campaigns, provide many of the facilities by the concerned authorities in the country to represent the factors attracting new, calling on the Ministry of Health to re-theme of vaccinations to what it was previously, which is that vaccination is free to all, and not be required to obtain the card health for those interested in vaccination among departments Preventive Medicine at the Ministry of Health. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.afp.com%2Far%2Fnews%2F%25d8%25a7%25d9%2586%25d8%25ae%25d9%2581%25d8%25a7%25d8%25b6-%25d8%25a8%25d8%25a3%25d8%25b9%25d8%25af%25d8%25a7%25d8%25af-%25d8%25a7%25d9%2584%25d8%25b1%25d8%25a7%25d8%25ba%25d8%25a8%25d9%258a%25d9%2586-%25d9%2581%25d9%258a-%25d8%25a3%25d8%25af%25d8%25a7%25d8%25a1-%25d8%25b9%25d9%2585%25d8%25b1%25d8%25a9-%25d8%25b1%25d9%2585%25d8%25b6%25d8%25a7%25d9%2586-%25d8%25a8%25d8%25ad%25d9%2588%25d8%25a7%25d9%2584%25d9%2589-50

New case of coronavirus in Jordan

May 24, 2014 - 2:29:50 pm
AMMAN: A sixty year old Jordanian citizen has attracted the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, raising the cases of the illness in Jordan to 10, the Jordanian Ministry of Health announced today.
Director of Health Care at the Jordanian Ministry of Health Dr. Bashir Al-Qaseer said in press release today that laboratory tests confirmed that the citizen was suffering from the coronavirus and was admitted to the Jordanian University Hospital.
The patient was quarantined in the isolation and intensive care section to be proved with the necessary medical care.
Dr. Al-Qaseer added that the incubation period of the coronavirus in human body after contracting the virus ranges between 2 to 14 days, stressing that the number of proven cases in Jordan until yesterday reached 10 cases, including 5 deaths.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is viral respiratory illness. It is caused by a coronavirus called MERS-CoV. Most people who have been confirmed to have MERS-CoV infection developed severe acute respiratory illness. They had fever, cough, and shortness of breath. (QNA). http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/latest-news/284959/new-case-of-coronavirus-in-jordan

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Special Report : Saudi Arabia takes heat for spread of MERS virus

LONDON Thu May 22, 2014 1:50am EDT

1 of 3. A man wearing a mask poses with camels at a camel market in the village of al-Thamama near Riyadh in this May 11, 2014 file photo.
Credit: Reuters/Faisal Nasser/Files
(Reuters) - In a north London laboratory on a Saturday in September 2012, an email arrived from a team of virologists in the Netherlands that spooked even some of the world's most seasoned virus handlers.
It contained details of a mysterious viral pathogen that had been found in two patients - a Qatari in intensive care in Britain, and a Saudi who died in a Jeddah hospital of pneumonia and renal failure.
This information-sharing between world-leading specialists proved fruitful: Within days the new virus had been identified as one never seen before in humans, had some of its genes sequenced, and its genetic ancestry published online for scientists around the world to see.
Yet that international collaboration was not to last.
Instead, Western scientists allege, the cooperation gave way to a Saudi culture of suspicion and stubbornness that has allowed the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, as it has become known, to kill more than 175 people in Saudi Arabia, spread throughout the region and reach as far as Malaysia, Greece, Lebanon and - via Britain - the United States.
The disease, like its cousin Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), causes coughing, fever and sometimes fatal pneumonia. More than 650 people worldwide have been infected with it, and MERS is reaching new victims every day in the Saudi kingdom, killing around 30 percent of them.
Experts say these infections and deaths could have been stopped well within the two years since MERS first emerged - and would have been if Saudi authorities had been more open to outside help offered by specialist teams around the world with the technology, know-how and will to conduct vital scientific studies.
But according to scientists involved in tracking MERS over the past two years, the Saudis have rejected repeated offers of help - including from World Health Organisation (WHO) experts, as well as the Dutch specialists at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam and the London team working for Public Health England (PHE).
In Saudi Arabia, no case-control study has been completed, meaning fundamental questions cannot be answered about the virus' capabilities, where it came from, and what it might do next.
"It's really a tragedy for these people who get sick," said David Heymann, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology, chairman of PHE and head of global health security at Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs.
"It's just so frustrating not to know how people are getting infected and to see people continue to get infected and die from a virus which maybe they wouldn't have to get if we knew more."
Saudi Deputy Health Minister Ziad Memish told Reuters he was "surprised" by such criticisms, describing work done by his Ministry of Health since the emergence of the disease as "nothing but collaborative." He pointed out that scientists still struggle to understand other deadly viruses decades after they were first identified, and questioned the motives of some critics.
"I'm happy" with the way the Saudi authorities have handled this virus outbreak, "and will continue to involve more partners to make knowing the details of the virus a global success," he said in an email.
SO LONG, SO LITTLE KNOWLEDGE
Scientists say what stands out about the MERS virus is just how little the world knows about it, even though for almost two years it has been viewed as one of the top potential pandemic threats by a global network of specialists who keep tabs on all emerging viruses.
Primary responsibility for the response lies with the Saudi Ministry of Health, which under international health regulations reports to the WHO on MERS cases.
The ministry has from the start worked intermittently with various global agencies and institutions, including the WHO, the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the University of Columbia and Ecohealth Alliance. Some of them have expressed frustration about Saudi authorities' apparent lack of urgency. The WHO, for example, has conducted several scientific missions to the Middle East, primarily to provide support for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors to start the research needed to get on top of the outbreak. Yet much of this work remains undone.
So far, much evidence points to camels as a possible infection source - with the virus staging a so-called zoonotic event by jumping from animals to people. But scientists still have no idea how people are getting infected, whether by eating camel meat, or drinking the milk, touching blood or other body fluids, or simply being nearby when they cough or sneeze.
There is also no good data on how many people may be catching the virus but showing no or few symptoms, or how to successfully treat patients who get sick with MERS.
"There is so much missing in our knowledge of this infection after 20 months - whether it be the epidemiology, the transmission routes, the virology, or behavioral change," said Jeremy Farrar, an infectious disease specialist and director of the Wellcome Trust international charity.
The Saudis have been offered a lot of help, he said, but "they are not open to it."
"The world is very lucky this virus seems to be stable and doesn't seem to be changing, but 20 months in to the emergence of a new virus, just imagine if it had been another SARS."
Comparisons with SARS have dogged the MERS coronavirus since it first surfaced - not only because the two viruses belong to the same family but also because they cause similar symptoms.
There is one key difference: SARS in 2003 was more dangerous than MERS is now, not because it has a higher fatality rate - the SARS death toll was lower at around 10 percent - but because it spread more easily from person to person.
LIKE SARS, IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE
When SARS hit global headlines in 2003, it had already been circulating unchecked in China for several months. It fell below the radar of the WHO, which was kept in the dark by secretive Chinese officials.
When Beijing did come clean, Public Health England's Heymann, who back then was chief of the WHO's infectious disease section, says public chastising of China, coupled with intensive daily collaboration between specialists, helped bring the outbreak to an end within months. The disease killed almost 800 people worldwide.
"There were three virtual groups - laboratory people, clinicians and epidemiologists - who networked daily by phone and email, working together to solve the problem," Heymann said.
Saudi suspicions about working with teams of researchers outside the kingdom - and the Deputy Minister's desire to stay in control - may have been prompted by precisely the information-sharing that characterized the virus's first few days, interviews with key scientists and public health officials involved in tracking MERS since 2012 suggest. Memish did not respond to that suggestion.
Ali Mohamed Zaki, an Egyptian microbiologist working at the Dr Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah, found and reported the first MERS patient by posting lab results on an international scientific website. Zaki was sacked within a week of going public about the new virus. He has since returned to his native Egypt and now works at the faculty of medicine at Cairo's Ain Shams University.
"I lost my job because of this discovery," he told Reuters. No-one at the Jeddah hospital could be contacted for comment.
The fact the Dutch team with whom Zaki had first communicated took out a patent on the newly identified virus seems also to have rankled. In an email to Reuters, Deputy Health Minister Memish described that move as being driven by a "financial agenda."
Ab Osterhaus, who heads the virology department at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, said patenting the virus was the "normal thing to do" in such a situation, and said his lab freely shared details of the virus with everyone and anyone who wants to conduct research.
There are few patents on viruses, largely because most of them were discovered many years ago. But research institutes often take out patents, at the same time as sharing a virus freely, as a way of encouraging future interest from industry in developing vaccines or other drugs.
"We've always been very open with everything," Osterhaus said.
"Somebody should be doing the epidemiological work in Saudi, and we have all the techniques operational today to be involved in those kinds of studies, so we'd be happy to collaborate. We have offered our services to Memish, but apparently we are not the obvious candidates to help."
Others who worked with Saudi scientists at the very beginning of the outbreak, when MERS had not even been named and was only just starting to be investigated, say Saudi authorities - and Memish in particular - wanted an increasing level of control.
Ian Lipkin, a virologist at New York's Columbia University, was among the first to establish a link between the MERS virus and camels. Lipkin told Reuters that he initially worked with Memish, but the two fell out. "I haven't worked with him in six months. We no longer work together at all," he said.
Lipkin declined to give details, saying only: "We're just not in agreement on many things."
A specialist in infectious diseases, Memish has served on advisory committees for the WHO, and published more than 180 papers in the past decade - several in high-impact journals such as The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine, according to an analysis by ThomsonReuters IP & Science unit. This volume of work is indicative of a fairly prolific research scientist, but not out of the ordinary.
Zaki said Memish was "very angry" to hear he was to publish a paper along with Osterhaus's team in the New England Journal of Medicine on the discovery of the MERS virus. "He (Memish) wanted to have the whole story for himself," Zaki said.
And asked whether he, as discoverer of the virus, has since been able to work from Egypt with Saudi scientists to investigate it in more detail, Zaki added: "No no, not at all."
Memish says he'd be happy to work with Lipkin in the future "if his services will be needed and (would) not duplicate our work with other partners." He did not respond to questions about whether he was trying to claim credit for every MERS investigation.
Memish's boss was replaced as Saudi Health Minister just as MERS appeared to be gathering pace. His replacement, Labour Minister Adel Fakieh, was not available for interview with Reuters. His appointment was seen by commentators as an attempt by the government to be seen taking MERS more seriously.
CRITICAL GAPS
As the frustration over the response emerges, big questions about the deadly virus remain.
Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's head of health security, has been careful not to directly criticize Saudi authorities. But in a media briefing on May 14, he described progress as slow and admitted that despite repeated calls from the WHO, crucial research has not yet been done.
"There are critical gaps in information," Fukuda said. He noted in particular the continuing lack of a case-control study - an essential starting point for determining where a new disease is coming from, who it is infecting, and how. "In principle, everybody accepts that the studies are important to do, and that they may yield some of the critical information that is wanted, but ... it has been slow."
In July 2013, he also said the WHO had "conducted a number of missions in the Middle East, primarily to provide support to assess what is the situation, (and) what investigations should be done."
Memish defends his country's actions and says he has collaborated widely. He points to other infectious viral diseases, such as Ebola, which has caused sporadic but deadly outbreaks in Africa since it was first identified 40 years ago and about which scientists still have limited knowledge.
"All these collaborations have answered many questions but of course (there) still remain some to be answered," he said. "Look at Ebola, which has been around for many years, and tell me ... do we have all the answers on source, mode of transmission from zoonotic source and treatment or vaccine prevention?"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/22/us-saudi-mers-specialreport-idUSBREA4L03D20140522 

Global MERS death toll passes 200-mark

• Filipino nurse in Jeddah among latest fatality

JEDDAH: The world’s total death toll from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus has passed the 200-mark and is still going up.
As of Thursday, the cumulative global number of MERS infections since September 2012 was 661, of which 205 patients have died, data compiled from reports of the Saudi Health Ministry and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control showed.
Saudi Arabia bore the brunt of the outbreak, with the Health Ministry's count on May 23, 2014 standing at 551 cases, including 177 deaths.
A statement posted by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control on its website on Thursday said that as of May 20, the cumulative number of infections in all countries other than Saudi Arabia stood at 110, with 28 deaths.
Topping the list was the United Arab Emirates with 67 cases and 9 deaths, followed by Jordan with 9 cases and 4 deaths, and Qatar with 7 cases and 4 deaths.
Rounding up the Middle East countries with MERS cases were Oman had 2 cases, 2 deaths; Kuwait, 3 cases/1 death; Egypt: 1 case/0 deaths; Yemen: 1 case/1 death and Lebanon: 1 case/0 deaths.
In Europe, UK led with 4 cases/3 deaths, followed by Germany: 2 cases/1 death; France, 2 cases/1 death; Italy, 1 case/0 deaths; Greece, 1 case/0 deaths; and the Netherlands, 2 cases/0 deaths.
Africa had 3 cases/1 death, all in Tunisia.
The Americas had two cases, all in the United States.
In Asia, Malaysia reported 1 death and Philippines had 1 infection.
While the Philippines had only one case of infection, a number of Filipino workers in the Middle East were reported to have been among the victims, including two nurses who have died in Saudi Arabia and one in the United Arab Emirates  http://www.arabnews.com/news/575521

MERS-CoV enigma deepens as reported cases surge

The Lancet, Volume 383, Issue 9931, Page 1793, 24 May 2014
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Experts are puzzled by an explosion of new cases of MERS-CoV, as a WHO committee raises concerns over the handling of the outbreak. David Holmes reports.
Researchers are struggling to explain a rapid rise in reported infections with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). As of May 16, the number of laboratory confirmed cases globally had climbed to 614, with 181 deaths. 418 of those cases have been reported in the past 2 months, mostly in Saudi Arabia.
After it was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012, MERS infections have been reported throughout the Arabian peninsula and exported to at least ten other countries. Most confirmed cases of MERS-CoV infection have developed severe acute respiratory illness, but the virus also often causes kidney and other organ failure. The mortality rate is around 30%, and there is currently no vaccine or specific treatment available.
While stopping short of proclaiming the outbreak an international public health emergency, the WHO Emergency Committee on MERS-CoV announced on May 14 that its concern over the situation had “significantly increased”, with particular worries over recent evidence that the infection is spreading in hospitals, and apparent “gaps in critical information”.
One of the most crucial gaps is our lack of understanding of where the virus comes from, says Marion Koopmans, of the Netherlands National Institute of Public Health. So far, studies have more or less ruled out sheep, cattle, goats, and poultry as a source, but dromedary camels throughout the Arabian peninsula and in parts of North and East Africa have been shown to carry the virus. However, it is still too early to say definitively that they are the main source of primary infections in humans, says Koopmans. “I am convinced that people and dromedary camels share the same viruses, but how exactly this happens we do not know”, she explains. “Camels shed virus from their nose, and sometimes in stool, which is dropped and may cause environmental contamination. Younger animals seem to be virus-positive more often than adult animals, so combined, the best bet would be to look for exposures (direct or indirect) to young camels as the highest risk factor.”
As young camels lose their maternal immunity they become more susceptible to MERS-CoV infection, and the fact that the latest surge in cases corresponds with similar smaller spikes throughout April and May in 2012 and 2013 in Jordan and Saudi Arabia also suggests that the breeding season could be a factor. However, a seasonal increase in exposure to young camels alone doesn't seem a sufficient explanation, according to Ziad Memish, Saudia Arabia's Deputy Minister for Public Health and professor in the College of Medicine at Alfaisal University in the capital Riyadh. “More than two-thirds of the primary human cases have no links to camels”, he notes. One possibility is that another species is acting as an intermediary. Bats have been touted as a possible source after a bat of the Taphozous genus was found to harbour a fragment of the MERS sequence, but contacts between bats and people are so rare that it “would seem an unlikely explanation”, says Koopmans. Another zoonotic infection, Nipah virus, has been shown to stem from the consumption of date palm sap contaminated by infected fruit bats, but Christian Dorsten, a virologist at the University of Bonn, Germany, who is working with local researchers in Saudi Arabia, says talk of a similar link between bats and MERS is far-fetched. “There are several aspects in recent hypotheses around MERS and bats that make no biological sense at all. For example, it is not true that Taphozous feeds on dates from which the virus could be acquired. Taphozous is insectivorous”, he says.
Another possible explanation for the recent surge in cases is that the virus has acquired mutations enabling it to be transmitted more easily between people, but again, Dorsten notes, the facts tell a different story. Many of the recent cases occurred in the port city of Jeddah, and sequences taken of the Jeddah viruses show no hints of any relevant genetic changes says Dorsten. The Jeddah viruses do, however, seem to be a different strain from those causing infections elsewhere in the country, and are probably linked to a hospital-associated outbreak, according to Dorsten. “Without having seen epidemiological data, I predict that most cases detected in Jeddah will be linked quite directly to the outbreak in King Fahd Hospital from where it spread to other hospitals”, he says.
The prevention of future outbreaks will hinge on countering the “surprising lack of information about how this virus is transmitted from animals to humans”, says Maria Van Kerkhove, liaison between WHO and the UK MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London. “Basic epidemiologic studies have still not been done to evaluate risk factors for infection”, she says. “We know that infection control and prevention works to stop human-to-human transmission, but without stopping transmission from camels, we will continue to see more cases in the Middle East, some of whom will travel outside of the region.”
For more on MERS-CoV in health workers see CommentLancet 2014; published online May 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60852-7

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Livestock Association in Riyadh demanding « Health» refrain from statements Batin free « Corona » and attempts to whitewash the camels of « virus »


Today - Riyadh , Manis Shehhi - Batin 05/21/2014 - 03:00:00
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The Director of the King Khaled Hospital General drilled sub ​​Dr Khader Zafiri he has been the adoption of the hospital as a center for diseases Corona , adding Zafiri he was put department within the hospital helping accident cases that are suspected of being affected by the disease , has been the creation of the section with all the equipment and allocated to the department just as the existence of air secluded from the rest of the hospital X-Ray , as well as private and special cadre , has been organizing their working hours and assuming the cases , with an emphasis on the application of infection control within the hospital strictly .
And cases of Corona was recorded drilled sub ​​recently and what is going on about the existence of Mnomin hospital denied Zafiri there is no case of sleeping at the hospital at all , and that the only case in which I checked the hospital was getting out was from Jeddah and went to his home , and he has a follow-up and attention to preventive medicine of the Directorate of Health Affairs Bhfralebatn .On the other hand , called the Cooperative Association for livestock in Riyadh and the Ministries of Health and Agriculture to form a team of specialized researchers in the field of viruses and diseases common to humans and animals to stand on the prairie barns and markets camel breeders and shepherds for the analysis of blood and see how the existence of such a virus among camels and humans and whether the virus moved from camels to humans or vice versa , it might be a virus beauty is not transmitted to humans as in pets like cats in America .


The Assembly demanded in a statement on behalf of the President of the Council of the Cooperative Association for livestock in Riyadh , Dr. Saleh bin Abdulrahman bin Saleh Al Shraideh , the Ministry of Health to prove the number of the deceased and their careers and their business are they in contact camel ? Is the origin of the virus is the camel ? Does the Ministry of Agriculture deaths and one death due to the virus camels or not?

 It pointed out in the statement that she had seen what was issued by the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture about the accusations directed towards economic wealth taken root depths of the Arabian Peninsula from the long-standing but has been associated with male camels Sahara and its role in the development of local communities and the accusation of camels as a source of virus Corona without carrying out research studies and scientific the laboratory itself on camels and shepherds and educators and is one of her contacts Almjavih facts of reality and leading to interpretations and speculations and opinions that have many negative on the homeland and the citizen .

The Assembly called on the Ministries of Health and Agriculture to stop the permits until the end of the committee formed to prepare the necessary reports , realism and real , due to the lack of successful treatment cures the disease Assembly considers activating the role of preventive and awareness through the media and various liquid . Confirmed its strong commitment to the security and safety of the community through field work and standing with the right support and everything in his power to preserve this heritage of economic and human safety and health. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alyaum.com%2FNews%2F

Minister of Health: containment «Corona» a top priority for the ministry

Tuesday 2014/05/20

Health Minister-designate Adel Faqih
Jeddah - SPA:
Health Minister-designate Adel Faqih that contain the Corona virus that causes respiratory syndrome Middle East comes on top of the priorities of the Ministry of Health.
This came during his speech at the meeting of Ministers of Health of the Middle East countries on the sidelines of the meeting of officials and leaders of the World Health within the framework of the sixty-seventh meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva today.
Said Fakih: "The containment of the virus which is what we are working with our partners from international organizations and institutions as well as experts of research and medicine from inside and outside the Kingdom, we also coordinate daily with the World Health Organization to ensure that the exchange of the latest results, information and best practices with all parties concerned with these international efforts ".
He added that the main priorities in the Kingdom is the prevention of infection, where the ministry to establish a center of operations to be the main supporter of the ministry's efforts, in addition to the formation of a medical team for the quick response, and the development of protocols and guidelines updated to prevent infection and control, and to require all health care facilities in the Kingdom to apply strictly .  http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alriyadh.com%2Fnews