UAE Announces First Case of MERS Virus Infection 2013

by Guest Wed Jul 17, 2013 2:26 pm

2013 2013 2013 This is not the <u>first</u> case in the UAE.  My information shows a 73yo reported in March 2013.<br /><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Geneva; panose-1:2 11 5 3 3 4 4 4 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Geneva; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; color:black;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style>  <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal"><i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Date Report:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>3/26/13</span></b> – 17 Total Confirmed, 11 Deaths</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Name:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>73yo</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>From:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>United Arab Emirates</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Onset:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>3/14</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Adm:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>3/19<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Munich Klinikum Schwabing Hospital Flown from UAE</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>in private Jet,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>on day 11 of illness </i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Confirmation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>3/23/13</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">DOD:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>3/25/13</span></b></i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Died on day 18 of illness. 50 people being monitored medically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Unchanged.</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>The full virus genome was combined with four other available full genome sequences in a maximum likelihood phylogeny, correlating branch lengths with dates of isolation. The time of the common ancestor was halfway through 2011. Addition of novel genome data from an unlinked case treated 6 months previously in Essen, Germany, showed a clustering of viruses derived from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2813%2970154-3/abstract">http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2813%2970154-3/abstract</a></div></blockquote> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #aeaeae; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span> <br />July 12, 2013<br /><div class="rtejustify" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The Emirati citizen, who contracted the SARS-like virus, suffers from cancer and is being treated in hospital in the capital, Abu Dhabi health authority said in a statement carried by WAM state news agency late Thursday.</div><div class="rtejustify" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The authority said that this was the first case to be diagnosed in the UAE, Ahramonline reported.</div><div class="rtejustify" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">In May, France said a 65-year-old man was in hospital after being diagnosed with the coronavirus after a holiday in Dubai. But the UAE health ministry said at the time no cases of the virus had been recorded in the country.</div><br /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Continued:  <a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920421000315">http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920421000315</a><br /><br> 2013 2013 2013 <br>This is not the <u>first</u> case in the UAE.  My information shows a 73yo reported in March 2013.<br /><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Geneva; panose-1:2 11 5 3 3 4 4 4 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Geneva; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Geneva; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; color:black;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style>  <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal"><i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Date Report:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>3/26/13</span></b> – 17 Total Confirmed, 11 Deaths</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Name:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>73yo</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>From:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>United Arab Emirates</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Onset:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>3/14</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Adm:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>3/19<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Munich Klinikum Schwabing Hospital Flown from UAE</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>in private Jet,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>on day 11 of illness </i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Confirmation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>3/23/13</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">DOD:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>3/25/13</span></b></i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Died on day 18 of illness. 50 people being monitored medically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Unchanged.</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i>The full virus genome was combined with four other available full genome sequences in a maximum likelihood phylogeny, correlating branch lengths with dates of isolation. The time of the common ancestor was halfway through 2011. Addition of novel genome data from an unlinked case treated 6 months previously in Essen, Germany, showed a clustering of viruses derived from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.</i></div><i> </i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2813%2970154-3/abstract">http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2813%2970154-3/abstract</a></div></blockquote> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #aeaeae; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span> <br />July 12, 2013<br /><div class="rtejustify" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The Emirati citizen, who contracted the SARS-like virus, suffers from cancer and is being treated in hospital in the capital, Abu Dhabi health authority said in a statement carried by WAM state news agency late Thursday.</div><div class="rtejustify" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">The authority said that this was the first case to be diagnosed in the UAE, Ahramonline reported.</div><div class="rtejustify" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">In May, France said a 65-year-old man was in hospital after being diagnosed with the coronavirus after a holiday in Dubai. But the UAE health ministry said at the time no cases of the virus had been recorded in the country.</div><br /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Continued:  <a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920421000315">http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920421000315</a><br /><br>2013 2013 2013 <br> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/" title="Matrix ">المصفوفة : أجمل الخلفيات والصور</a>