11/26/2012
BC hospitals are on heightened alert after a new SARS-like virus has killed two people in the Middle East.
Dr. Perry Kendall, the province's Chief Medical Health Officer, says doctors received a memo from the world health organization.
"If they have concerns because there may be a linkage to someone who's travelled to Saudi Arabia or Qatar, they're asked to send respiratory secretions to the BCCDC lab so that they can be examined to be quite sure they don't have the corona virus which is linked to SARS."
There have been six confirmed cases of the virus since April. http://www.cknw.com/news/vancouver/story.aspx/story.aspx?ID=1826364
