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Monday 8 July 2013 - 10:23
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Two more die of SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia

Two more die of SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia
[caption id="attachment_37649" align="alignright" width="210"] In Saudi Arabia, two more people die of a SARS-like virus.[/caption]
Two more people have died from a virus related to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Saudi Arabia, health authorities say.
The Saudi Arabian Health Ministry said on its website on Sunday that a 53-year-old man in the countrys Eastern Province and a two-year-old child in the Red Sea city of Jeddah have died from the MERS virus.

The recent deaths put the total number of people to die from the respiratory infection in Saudi Arabia at 38.

This is while three new cases of MERS have been reported in Riyadh and Hafr al-Batin.

The virus first emerged in the Middle East, and was discovered in September 2012 in a Qatari man who had recently traveled to Saudi Arabia.

Cases have been reported in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, France, Italy, Tunisia and the United Kingdom.

Health authorities are trying to determine how people contract the virus in a bid to find a cure for it. The nCoV-EMC novel coronavirus is a cousin of SARS.

The virus does not appear to be as contagious as SARS, which killed some 800 people in a 2003 epidemic.

The novel coronavirus is most closely related to a bat virus. Scientists are considering whether bats or other animals like goats or camels are a possible source of infection.

The World Health Organization has advised countries to test any people with unexplained pneumonia for the virus.

By Press TV

 

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