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Mystery virus scare in Denmark 'just the flu'
2012-09-27
Follow up on yesterday's story. No worries, go back to sleep.
FIVE people in isolation in a Danish hospital are suffering from a typical influenza strain and not a new SARS-like respiratory illness as feared.

"The five have tested positive for Influenza B and because of their general state we are sure that they do not have the new coronavirus," the hospital's chief physician Svend Stenvang Petersen said.

The five, three adults and two children, had been isolated at the hospital since Tuesday amid fears they had contracted a new virus in the same family as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) after they experienced fever, coughing and influenza-like symptoms.

Two of the five had recently been to the Middle East, with the father of the two children having travelled to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
and an unrelated man in Qatar.

The new virus was recently identified by the British Health Protection Agency in a Qatari man transferred to London after apparently picking it up in Saudi Arabia.

A Saudi national died earlier this year from a virtually identical virus, the World Health Organisation has said.

The WHO confirmed in a global alert on Monday that the new virus was in the coronavirus family which causes the common cold but can also include more severe illnesses including SARS.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  It's the Green Flu!!!
Posted by: DarthVader   2012-09-27 21:42  

#1  Hajj SARS And Denial of Iranian Hajj Visas Linked [WAC]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA3J06Du9qs
Posted by: Snakes Thresing6530   2012-09-27 13:15  

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