new virus spreads easily MERS, more deadly than SARS

20/06/2013 14:36

 

LONDON - (AP) - A mysterious new respiratory virus, which originated in the Middle East spreads easily appear under more deadly than SARS and the people, miu miu bagdoctors reported on Wednesday after the investigation, the largest epidemic in Saudi Arabia. More than 60 cases of what is now. Than MERS, including 38 deaths, were reported by the World Health Organization last year, mainly in Saudi Arabia So far, the disease has not as fast as SARS in 2003 ultimately trigger a global epidemic that has spread killed about 800 people. An international team of doctors was analyzed nearly two dozen cases in eastern Saudi Arabia, the new coronavirus some striking similarities with SARS. Unlike SARS, however, the scientists confused about the source of MERS. In a troubling finding, the team said MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome), not only spreads easily from one person, but in hospitals. This was also the case with SARS, a distant relative of the new virus. "For me it felt a bit like SARS did," said Dr. Trish Perl, an epidemiologist at the main hospital at Johns Hopkins Medicine, which was part of a team. Their report was published online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Perl said they could not pinpoint how to spread it in all cases - through droplets from coughing or sneezing, or an indirect route. Some of the patients at the hospital were not close to the infected person, but somehow picked up the virus. "In appropriate cases, the spread could be explosive," Perl said, and stressed that the team had only a snapshot of a MERS group in Saudi Arabia. There are cases continue to flow, and it seems an epidemic underway in Saudi Arabia to be. MERS cases were reported in Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Tunisia. Most have a direct connection with the Middle East. In Saudi group that has been studied, some patients infected by many more people than expected, Perl said. A patient who received dialysis treatment MERS to seven other people, including dialysis patients, colleagues in the same hospital spread. During the SARS patients were actually a "Super Sprayer" and epidemics in many countries sown known. Perl and his colleagues also found that similar to the symptoms of both diseases, with an initial fever and cough that can last a few days before pneumonia developed. But MERS appears to be much more deadly. Compared to the percent mortality of SARS "8, the mortality rate for MERS in the Saudi home was about 65 percent, although experts mild cases that could affect the numbers may miss. While SARS was attributed to bats before jumping to humans from civets, the source of the virus MERS remains a mystery. It is closely related to a virus of bats, although some experts suggest that people get sick of animals such as camels or goats. Another hypothesis is that infected bats can contaminate foods such as dates, often harvested and consumed in Saudi Arabia. Doctors around the world have struggled to treat patients. "We need more information from other countries to know what is the best treatment," said Dr. Clemens Wendtner who treats a patient, MERS later died in Munich. "Our patient has everything that is possible and still can not help it." Other experts say that it's enough worrying signs of MERS, which can not be written off, despite the relatively small number of cases, it has caused. "As long as he is there, he probably make genetic roulette table into something more dangerous," said Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota. The Director-General Dr Margaret Chan called MERS has the greatest threats to public health officials were recognized in relation to preventive measures "empty hands." "We do not understand enough about the virus when it considered against the size of the potential threat," she said last month in Geneva. At a meeting this weekend in Cairo, who meet with other experts to discuss and possibly MERS guidelines for the next month of Ramadan, Miu Miu handbagwhere millions of Muslim pilgrims visit Saudi Arabia.