Saudi Arabia: 1 more death from new virus

Saudi Arabia says one more man has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 40 the number of deadly cases in the Kingdom at the center of the growing outbreak.

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Published: Sun 25 Aug 2013, 3:01 PM

Last updated: Tue 7 Apr 2015, 5:30 PM

Saudi men walk to the King Fahad hospital in the city of Hofuf, some 370 kilometres East of the capital Riyadh.  AFPThe Saudi Health Ministry said on Sunday the 51-year-old man who died in Riyadh was also suffering from cancer and other chronic diseases, while tests of two new suspected cases involving two Saudi men in the southwestern province of Asir proved positive.

This undated electron microscope image made availalbe by the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows novel coronavirus particles, also known as the MERS virus, colorized in yellow.APThe new virus is related to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed some 800 people in a global outbreak in 2003. It belongs to a family of viruses that most often causes the common cold.


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