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Friday, November 23, 2012

WHO: 4 new cases of coronavirus infection, including 2 in same family


 Friday, November 23, 2012 11:48 AM
The World Health Organization says it has been informed of four additional infections with the new coronavirus, including two people in one family in Saudi Arabia.
The WHO says two other members of the same family were sick with similar symptoms.
The UN agency's statement does not address the question of whether the family members may have been infected by an animal or environmental source, or whether the virus may have spread from person to person.
Of those four sick family members, two have died; one tested positive for the virus and testing is still underway on samples from the other....

....atory infections, in the community or among health-care workers. Health-care workers can serve as sentinel in disease outbreaks because they can become infected by unidentified cases.
There is little information about the new cases. The WHO statement does not identify whether the cases are men or women, nor does it give their ages or whether they lived in cities or the countryside.
Nor does the statement hypothesize how any of the people may have become infected...
http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/health/who+4+new+cases+of+coronavirus+infection+including+2+in+same+family/6442759396/story.html


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