The Most lethal book in the last 40 years besides the classics from Marx etc...
Posted on 05/19/2014 7:33:15 AM PDT by wtd
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 18 May, 2014, 6:26am UPDATED : Sunday, 18 May, 2014, 2:42pm
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"In its latest tally, Saudi Arabia’s health ministry said the total number of infections in the kingdom from the coronavirus since it first appeared in 2012 now stood at 529 people.
"Among the latest fatalities were two men aged 67 and 55 and an 80-year-old woman in Jeddah, the port city where a spate of cases among staff at King Fahd Hospital last month led to the dismissal of its director and the health minister."
"They were all isolated and treated, he said. But some patients developed complications and succumbed to the virus, Shu’airiyah said without giving any fatality figures.
He said it is probable that these patients got the infection at the emergency room.
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Overall, >80% of cases of MERS have occurred in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) afflicting mostly males older than 45-years with underlying medical conditions.
Clusters of disease in healthcare facilities have coincided with steep climbs in case numbers during April of 2013 and 2014. Disease in children is infrequent and seems to be milder. Approximately a fifth of cases have occurred in healthcare workers
I think death by lightening can beat that.
What I read said it was not easily spread. It sounds like longer term contact required.
The most important take away should be 1) with modern medical care people survive and 2) those with compromised immune systems are more at risk nd more likely to die.
No surprises there. This is the latest media hype “sky is falling SARS is bad” infection.
Easiest way to end transmission is to block folks from travel to and from Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, and the other sand lands
Must be God’s will...
While a valid point, that means Malaria has a fatality rate of 0.3%, while MERS is at 30%.
The fear is that something happens that makes MERS more contagious.
Thanks for the information.
While this disease is serious, in the United States, it is extremely rare and has been isolated. The greatest risk is from mid-east visitors.
A greater concern is that MERS provides the MSM a distracting issue from Benghazi. If I put on my tinfoil hat, I would even think that a cornered (desparate) Obama may even allow the spread of MERS in the United States so that he can state that he ‘cannot be bothered with providing emails or appearing before investigators because he has important work to do to stop the spread of MERS’.
Bring back DDT and diazinon and watch those numbers drop.
The American case was an ER health care worker. That would limit contact to a number of hours, making it more contagious than I’m comfortable with.
The Most lethal book in the last 40 years besides the classics from Marx etc...
If the filthy carriers were conservative Americans the jerks in Washington would have us quarantined in camps.
But since they're from Saudi Arabia they get a pass to kill off our medical people...
“WHY are we allowing disease carriers from the ME to visit our country?” Maybe the regime has hope ... the death of a few tens of millions of Americans would make the change the hopey dopey changey bastard boy wants.
Without a quarantine, how would you know they were infected?
A quarantine would have to be applied to everyone that came from out of the country, wouldn’t it? I think that would be a very expensive and logistically difficult thing to do, especially since people that have visited Saudi could be coming in g from any country, even Canada.
Liberals scream about the evil white man wiping out Native Americans via new diseases, but welcome the diseased from foreign lands with open arms.
Our medical systems are stressed enough with Obamacare - we don’t need to kill off our doctors and nurses with diseases from the ME.
What about those that have been there, possibly infected, but from some country other than Saudi?
If someone’s been in Saudi Arabia within the past 3 months they should not be allowed in this country.
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