# 7245
Via a pair of long, but reasonably decipherable, Arabic news items overnight (h/t Tetano on FluTrackers) we get reports attributing their current `healthcare’ related coronavirus outbreak to contaminated dialysis equipment.
If the bulk of these cases can be shown to be due to contaminated hospital equipment, rather than from direct human-to-human transmission, then a lot of people will breathe a little easier.
But as we’ve also seen news reports suggesting that some H2H transmission may have taken place, this may not be as reassuring as one might hope.
For now, I would view these media stories cautiously, and put them all in the interesting, even plausible category.
But until we see some official verification (and hopefully, details from the epidemiological investigation emerge) - it would be premature to call this the definitive explanation for the mode of viral transmission in this outbreak.
First, from Almadaa.net/news.
"Hemodialysis" hospital because of a "Corona" Mfg
06-28-1434 03: 49
Information revealed that the main causes of the spread of "Corona" in a hospital in Al-Ahsa comes due to contamination of dialysis "devices" in the hospital.
Medical sources in Al-Ahsa in accordance with home health among other reasons provided by follow-up committees investigate the circumstances of the spread of the disease non-compliance by some workers in hospital infection control systems worldwide.
The coronavirus had caused the death of seven people and injured six others in the last two weeks, Al-Ahsa, causing a health alert and panic and fear between the hospitals.
Nearby, said one of the victims of the "virus" – that the close was not suffering from a serious illness when you sleep in the hospital, but was being washed with renal dialysis "3 days per week, and suddenly, the doctors informed his family a few days before his death, that their father is in critical condition as a result of a virus.
In the same context, the situation of an HIV-infected, a marked improvement in his health, in custody in hypnosis at a hospital in Kuala Lumpur as a precautionary measure, and will not be allowed to get out of the hospital before making sure he recovers fully, and that at least a minimum of two weeks.
The sources said that with the 5 others hospitalized in Al-Ahsa and Eastern hospitals are being treated intensively in hypnosis and rooms still unstable health condition.
We’ve a second report with almost identical language - this time from Alarabiya.net.
Kidney dialysis is contaminated beyond a "Corona" Mfg
The investigation revealed non-compliance in hospital infection control systems worldwide
Wednesday 27 Jumada II 1434-may 8, 2013
After the toll HIV-infected "SK" in Saudi Arabia, revealed information to highlight the causes of the spread of the virus at a hospital in Al-Ahsa, is contamination of dialysis "devices" in the hospital, according to Al-Watan.
And medical and health sources said the health of the lahsa among other reasons provided by follow-up committees investigate the circumstances of the spread of the disease non-compliance by some workers in hospital infection control systems worldwide. The coronavirus had caused the death of seven people and injured six others in the last two weeks, Al-Ahsa, which because of the State of health in the province, alert and panic and fear between the hospitals.
Nearby, said one of the victims of the "virus" – that the close was not suffering from a serious illness when you sleep in the hospital, but was being washed with renal dialysis "3 days per week, and suddenly, the doctors informed his family a few days before his death, that their father is in critical condition as a result of a virus. The sources said that with the 5 others hospitalized in Al-Ahsa and Eastern hospitals are being treated intensively in hypnosis, and rooms still unstable health condition.
