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The UAE case is in a 75-year-old Omani who is hospitalized in Abu Dhabi (pictured).
Medical authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia announced three new Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases today, one in the UAE and two in Saudi Arabia.
The case detected in the UAE is in a 75-year-old man from Oman who is hospitalized in Abu Dhabi, according to WAM, the UAE's state news service. The man is visiting the UAE and became ill with respiratory symptoms in October. He is being treated in the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU), according to the report.
The WAM information came from the Abu Dhabi health authority, which said it is coordinating with the UAE's health ministry and has taken steps recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The man's infection is the sixth MERS-CoV case detected in the UAE, and he is the second Omani known to be infected with the virus.
Saudi cases
Elsewhere, Saudi Arabia's health ministry said in a statement in Arabic that one of the country's newest cases involves a 72-year-old male resident of Riyadh who has several underlying chronic conditions. He is hospitalized in stable condition and is receiving treatment in the ICU.
The other Saudi case is in a previously healthy 43-year-old from Jeddah who is hospitalized in an ICU. The health ministry said the patient had not recently traveled outside of Jeddah.
The new cases announced today would lift the global total to 154 cases, including 64 deaths.
Surveillance efforts
In other developments today, Ziad A. Memish, MD, Saudi Arabia' s deputy minister for public health, spoke about MERS-CoV at the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) in Stockholm.
He told the group that active surveillance for the disease is under way, with a special focus on Hajj premises, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in live tweets from the meeting. He also noted that one of the key questions about MERS-CoV is why the virus behaves differently in different people, a factor that suggests transmission is more complex than previously thought.
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Yep. Here's a link to the St. Louis, MO chemical testing: http://news.yahoo.com/secret-cold-war-tests-st-louis-raise-concerns...
Here's a link to the San Fran and many other tests conducted in the U.S.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the...
Yes, they even did experiements on a city in the midwest, I forget where. And the poor are many times used as guinea pigs.
DR With everything they have done to the world it makes us cynical about any excuse they come up with about anything. They have trained us well.
Everything is possible and the government has never been squeamish about using people as guinea pigs for their war games. look at Tuskeegee Syphilis experiments and Guatemala just to name a couple. There is also their reckless use of depleted Uranium in bombs being dropped in the Middle East and nuclear and biological tests performed on US soil. They are capable of anything. Anyone who denies that is naive.
I've never had camel or horse, but I have had a buffalo burrito. Not bad.
DR, I guess biological warfare has to be one of the easiest to hide its source. I guess it's hard to tell if it is natural or not. The bats could be infecting small animals, but maybe the bats were infected? A while back, bats in the US had a "white nose" disorder which was used to close all the caves in the U.S. People wondered then if it was a pretext. Another good reason for immigration laws, because people can bring disease into the country that currently doesn't have that disease. And, of course, there's the small pox on the blankets given to the Indians as a population reducer. War conditions too can be a breeding ground. I'm rambling. Sorry.
http://hadnoclue.com/2012/10/30/camels-australia-overpopulation-exp...
Pretty crazy I would of never guessed it ever.
I is always possible. Just as it is possible that the animals are infected on purpose. Back when SARS was making the rounds there was also a study that came out of China it was also discussed that bats were carriers and believed to be infecting small mammals. Reports dating all the way back to 2003 can be found at this link
Camels in Australia? I never heard that before. And Saudi Arabia has to import them?
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