Monday, May 05, 2014

What is the CDC doing right and Saudi Arabia is not. They have 400 cases and 100 deaths.

I do know Saudi Arabia had originally attributed MERS to the poor and immigrants. I think it's moved past that. China has a method to contain their problems with virus outbreaks. Perhaps the WHO can make recommendations if the USA and China contains and treats these problems better.

Karen Weintraub and Doug Stanglin
USA TODAY  
5:10 p.m. EDT May 5, 2014

A man hospitalized in Indiana (click here) with the first U.S. case of the deadly MERS virus is steadily improving and is expected to be discharged from the hospital soon, health care officials said Monday.

The patient, a male health care worker who was living and working in Saudi Arabia, appears to be getting better, hospital officials said. He is no longer dependent on oxygen and has been eating and walking around, according to Alan Kumar, chief medical information officer of Community Hospital in Munster, Ind., where the patient has been since April 28.

MERS belongs to the coronavirus family that includes the common cold and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which caused more than 800 deaths globally in 2003....

SARS was a coronavirus. I thought China was heroic with SARS.

A novel coronavirus (click here) called “Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus” (MERS-CoV) was first reported in 2012 in Saudi Arabia. It has caused severe illness and death in people from several countries....