[AnNahar] Health authorities in Qatar on Tuesday announced the first case of MERS coronavirus in the Gulf state, with a 59-year-old man infected.The patient, a Qatari, is in stable, pH balanced condition, they said.
Another Qatari with the infection died in a London hospital on June 28.
The virus has killed 46 since September worldwide, 39 of them in 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 the Soddy national face...
which neighbors Qatar.
MERS is considered a cousin of the SARS virus that erupted in Asia in 2003 and infected 8,273 people, nine percent of whom died.
Like SARS, it is thought to have jumped from animals to humans,
| Didn't they say camels were a reservoir? |
Researchers have pointed to the Arabian, or dromedary, camel as a possible host of the virus.
| Why yes, yes they did. |
| So those of you who are sick old men who hang around Arabian camels please be sure to wash your hands frequently with soap, and do not touch the T-zone on your face. You also probably want to avoid making haj this year. |