UAE’s Proximity to Saudi Arabia
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Although I’ve found nothing yet on Abu Dhabi Health Authority (HAAD) website, two media outlets are reporting that at least one Iraqi pilgrim, en route home after making a pilgrimage to Mecca, has been detained and quarantined at the Dubai Airport on suspicion of having the MERS virus.
From the media reports, it sounds as if more than one person has been quarantined, but only one is symptomatic. It isn’t clear from the text of this report if the sick individual has actually tested positive for the virus, or is merely suspected to be infected.
Two versions of the same report, first from Al Assabeel.net.
Isolate Iraqi pilgrims in Dubai for being infected with Corona
- Saturday, 10 May 2014 15:1
Way detained by UAE authorities on Saturday, pilgrims from the Iraqi city of Mosul, Nineveh province in northern Iraq, to being infected with Corona, and this is the first injury to Iraqis since the onset of illness.
Said Rashid Mohammed, Director of Media Health Nineveh "The UAE authorities in Dubai and placed under quarantine today, pilgrims Iraqis from Mosul to being infected with Corona." He also explained that the pilgrim "aged 65 years, who were returning from Mecca after performing the Umrah,
Upon arrival at Dubai airport Ketranzi before moving to Iraq, was wounded by a state of nausea and some complications, prompting authorities to resuscitate him, and examined, and then advertising it is infected with Corona. " is a virus, "Corona", or so-called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, a virus that infects respiratory, and do not yet exist in the world accurate information about the origin of this virus nor its modes of transmission, as there is no vaccine and preventative or antibiotic to treat it.
And this report from Alqurtas news.
The first injury to Iraqis as "Corona" ... isolate pilgrims in Dubai for viral infection
Saturday 10 May 2014 | 16:03
Detained by UAE authorities on Saturday, pilgrims Iraqi city of Mosul, Nineveh province in northern Iraq, to being infected with Corona, and this is the first injury to Iraqis since the advent of the corona. said Rashid Mohammed, Director of Media Health Nineveh "The UAE authorities in Dubai and placed under quarantine today, pilgrims Iraqis from Mosul to being infected with Corona. "
He also explained that the pilgrim "aged 65 years, who were returning from Mecca after performing the Umrah, and upon his arrival at Dubai airport Ketranzi before moving to Iraq, was wounded by a state of nausea and some complications, prompting authorities to resuscitate him, and examined, the results show having the virus.
