Saturday, July 25, 2015

Saudi MOH Confirms Another MERS Case In Riyadh

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After several fairly quiet weeks, MERS reports are starting to pick up again in Saudi Arabia, with 7 cases reported over the past 5 days – 6 of which have centered around  Riyadh.

 

Although the source of exposure was not provided for the first 5 cases, the latest two cases are listed as having `Contact with suspected or confirmed cases in community or hospitals’.


Whether this means they are the result of a family cluster, or  another nosocomial outbreak, isn’t clear.   In any event, the details on the latest case read:

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