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THE World Health Organisation says it is too soon to say whether there could be an outbreak of a SARS-like killer respiratory disease after health officials in Britain announced they detected a related virus in a severely ill patient from the Middle East.
British officials alerted WHO on Saturday of the new virus in a man transferred from Qatar for treatment in London. He had recently travelled to Saudi Arabia, where another man died of a similar illness earlier this year.
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Originally posted by thePharaoh
its a coronavirus...from the same family....but its not sars...also sars was very contagious
and its two arabs from the khalig states,,,the rich ones,,,
23 SEPTEMBER 2012 - On 22 September 2012, the United Kingdom (UK) informed WHO of a case of acute respiratory syndrome with renal failure with travel history to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Qatar. The case is a previously healthy, 49 year old male Qatari national that presented with symptoms on 3 September 2012 with travel history to the KSA prior to onset of illness. On 7 September he was admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) in Doha, Qatar. On 11 September, he was transferred to the UK by air ambulance from Qatar. The Health Protection Agency of the UK (HPA) conducted laboratory testing and has confirmed the presence of a novel coronavirus . The HPA has compared the sequencing of the virus isolate from the 49 year old Qatari national with that of a virus sequenced previously by the Erasmus University Medical Centre, Netherlands. This latter isolate was obtained from lung tissue of a fatal case earlier this year in a 60 year-old Saudi national. This comparison indicated 99.5% identity, with one nucleotide mismatch over the regions compared. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses which includes viruses that cause the common cold and SARS. Given that this is a novel coronavirus, WHO is currently in the process of obtaining further information to determine the public health implications of these two confirmed cases. With respect to these findings, WHO does not recommend any travel restrictions.
Interesting that this is said to be originating in the Middle East, though.
Originally posted by definity
Hope this don't spread
Originally posted by magma
THE World Health Organisation says it is too soon to say whether there could be an outbreak of a SARS-like killer respiratory disease after health officials in Britain announced they detected a related virus in a severely ill patient from the Middle East.
British officials alerted WHO on Saturday of the new virus in a man transferred from Qatar for treatment in London. He had recently travelled to Saudi Arabia, where another man died of a similar illness earlier this year.
Originally posted by magma
reply to post by stupid girl
Interesting that this is said to be originating in the Middle East, though.
This is my thought too, What could this mean?
Originally posted by schuyler
Wait a sec....TWO cases, one of them earlier this YEAR and they're not even sure it was the same illness.
And this constitutes an "outbreak"?????
Originally posted by stupid girl
Originally posted by schuyler
Wait a sec....TWO cases, one of them earlier this YEAR and they're not even sure it was the same illness.
And this constitutes an "outbreak"?????
I guess that would depend on what you consider an outbreak.
Let's say you get a big 'ol zit on your chin. Then the next day, right beside the first festering abomination, you find another one.
Would you anticipate that you were having an outbreak?
Or just two gnarly zits that happened to be adjacent to each other?
Originally posted by stupid girl
SARS is basically glorified pneumonia.
Any respiratory virus could technically be said to be "SARS-like".
I wouldn't start gettin' my panties in a wad and crappin' Skittles until people start dropping like flies all over the globe.