- The Saudi Health Minister Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Rabiah, the authorities suspected the existence of three cases of Corona virus.
He said in a press conference held with officials of the delegation of the World Health Organization (WHO), it was recorded 24 cases of HIV infection so far since September / IOL.
He explained that the authorities are counting on people's awareness, as it perhaps there are cases do not reach hospitals.
For his part, explained in the official delegation of the World Health Organization that the delegation was not repelled an investigation, but for which came in force in all countries where there were fears the focus of calls infected concerted international efforts.
The press conference was held on the sidelines of the annual Saudi health.
Before that, according to the Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia, that the selection of consultants and specialists from universities, organizations, and international bodies, and the World Health Organization arrived in Saudi response to HIV, "Corona", which claimed the lives of seven people, recorded 17 cases of infection in the world, until the moment .
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Dr. Khalid Marghalani, in a statement carried by the official news agency, that the delegation of the World Health Organization and experts from universities met with the Deputy Minister of Public Health Dr. Ziad Mamish presence of a number of officials of the Public Health Agency and health education.
He added: "During the meeting, check out the strategies, policies and measures taken by the ministry to deal with the Corona virus and review what was done precautionary efforts and the work of finding and epidemiological to reduce its spread."
Last week, Saudi Arabia announced the high incidence of deaths with the virus, which has no up to the minute antibiotic or a vaccine, to seven, after monitoring three new cases of the disease in the province of Ahsa.
It is noteworthy that the virus Corona is one of the viruses that infect the respiratory tract, which represents 15 per cent of the viruses that cause influenza in humans, does not yet exist at the level of the world accurate information about its source or its modes of transmission, as there is no vaccination and preventive or antibiotic to treat it . http://www.murasel.org/portal/2013/05/12/245120/
