MERS virus kills another Saudi
RIYADH - The Saudi health ministry on Thursday announced the death of one of its citizens in the eastern region of Al-Ahsaa after he contracted MERS, a SARS-like virus. The ministry website said the...
View ArticleNew Saudi death from MERS virus
The ministry website said the latest death, announced on Wednesday, brings to 25 the number of people who have died from the virus since September, adding that 40 people are...
View ArticleNew Saudi death from MERS virus: ministry
RIYADH: The Saudi health ministry on Thursday announced the death of one of its citizens in the eastern region of Al-Ahsaa after he contracted MERS, a SARS-like virus. The ministry website said the...
View ArticleWHO raises death toll from SARS-like virus
The World Health Organisation has formally raised the global death toll from the SARS-like virus MERS to 31, after a new fatality in hard-hit Saudi Arabia. In a statement on Friday, the UN agency said...
View ArticleSaudi records five new SARS-like virus cases
RIYADH - The Saudi health ministry said on Tuesday it has recorded five new cases of a deadly SARS-like virus in the east of the oil-rich kingdom. It identified those affected as elderly people aged...
View ArticleFive new SARS-like virus case in Saudi Arabia
It identified those affected as elderly people aged between 73 and 85 who had been grappling with chronic illnesses. The announcement came as France's first victim of the nCoV-EMC novel coronavirus—a...
View ArticleWHO voices deep concern over spread of SARS-like virus
"We have a high level of concern over the potential... for this virus to have sustainable person-to-person spread," WHO deputy chief Keiji Fukuda told diplomats gathered in Geneva for the World Health...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Three More Deaths From Infection
Three more people have died from a new Sars-like strain of coronavirus, bringing the total global death toll so far to 30. The World Health Organisation has made the announcement after three people...
View ArticleWHO calls Middle Eastern virus, MERS, ‘threat to the entire world’ as death...
Calling it a “threat to the entire world,” the head of the World Health Organization sounded the alarm over the Middle Eastern virus that has so far killed 24 people. Speaking on Monday in Geneva at...
View ArticleIncubation period of Sars-like virus may be longer than thought
The incubation period of the Sars-like virus that has killed 30 people globally, mainly in Saudi Arabia, may be longer than previously thought, requiring longer quarantine, a study says. The Middle...
View ArticleDeath toll from SARS-like virus rises to 30
WHO spokesman Glenn Thomas told reporters that the number was raised from 27 after Saudi authorities confirmed the deaths of the three, who had previously been reported to the WHO as suffering from...
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