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News Scan for Feb 11, 2015
MERS case in Philippines; Disney-linked measles in Canada
Filed Under:
Measles; MERS-CoV
Philippines reports imported MERS case
Health officials in the Philippines reported a case of MERS in a Filipino nurse who recently returned from Saudi Arabia, according to a Reuters story today.
The nurse returned to the Philippines last week and presented with a fever, body pain, cough, and difficulty breathing. She was diagnosed with MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) and is currently hospitalized in stable condition, the story said.
Her husband, who traveled with her from Saudi Arabia to the Philippines, tested negative for MERS-CoV. Filipino health officials are conducting contact tracing for the 225 passengers who traveled with the nurse on Saudi Airlines flight 860.
Reuters said this is the first MERS case in the Philippines, although last spring Filipino officials reported an asymptomatic MERS-CoV infection in a nurse who had recently returned from the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia reported the death of a Filipino nurse in 2013.
The Philippines has expressed growing concern over MERS-CoV rates and the potential for imported cases in the many Filipino healthcare professionals working in the Persian Gulf region.
In news from Saudi Arabia, a Feb 9 Ministry of Health (MOH) report listed the recovery of a 67-year-old man who had previously been diagnosed with MERS-CoV. The man was not a healthcare worker and had an underlying medical condition.
The new recovery brings Saudi Arabia's MERS case total to 857, of whom 476 people have recovered and 366 have died. Fifteen Saudi cases remain active.
Feb 11 Reuters story
Apr 16, 2014, CIDRAP News story on asymptomatic case in Filipino nurse
Sep 17, 2013, CIDRAP News story on death of Filipino nurse in Saudi Arabia
Feb 9 MOH update
Ten measles cases in Quebec linked to Disneyland
An outbreak of 10 measles cases in Joliette, Quebec, is linked to the Disneyland-related outbreak in the United States, the Canadian Press (CP) reported today.
A statement from the Lanaudiere health authority, which covers a region northeast of Montreal, said the 10 cases are all connected, according to the story. The statement didn't name Disneyland specifically but said the first case-patients caught the virus while visiting a park in California where other cases have been reported. Officials did not reveal the patients' ages.
The count in a widespread US measles outbreak stood at 121 cases 2 days ago, with Disneyland seen as the source for most of them.
In other developments, a measles outbreak in Illinois has now reached 10 cases, with 9 of them linked to a daycare center in the Chicago suburb of Palatine, according to media reports today.
The two latest cases involve infants connected to the KinderCare Learning Center in Palatine, the Chicago Daily Herald reported yesterday. Another case is in a student at Elgin Community College in Elgin, a city 35 miles northwest of Chicago. Reports say all 10 case-patients were unvaccinated.
Meanwhile, Georgia health officials said they have identified 35 people at risk for measles following contact with a measles-infected baby from Kyrgyzstan who was treated at an Atlanta hospital, according to a story today from the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News.
The baby was admitted to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston on Feb 6 and was discharged yesterday, the story said, citing hospital officials.
The 35 at-risk people identified by officials have not been immunized against measles or have compromised immune systems, said Patrick O'Neal, MD, director of health protection for the Georgia Department of Public Health, according to the story. He said many of them are children.
Feb 11 CP story
Feb 10 Chicago Daily Herald story
Feb 11 Savannah Morning News story
News Scan for Feb 11, 2015
MERS case in Philippines; Disney-linked measles in Canada
Filed Under:
Measles; MERS-CoV
Philippines reports imported MERS case
Health officials in the Philippines reported a case of MERS in a Filipino nurse who recently returned from Saudi Arabia, according to a Reuters story today.
The nurse returned to the Philippines last week and presented with a fever, body pain, cough, and difficulty breathing. She was diagnosed with MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) and is currently hospitalized in stable condition, the story said.
Her husband, who traveled with her from Saudi Arabia to the Philippines, tested negative for MERS-CoV. Filipino health officials are conducting contact tracing for the 225 passengers who traveled with the nurse on Saudi Airlines flight 860.
Reuters said this is the first MERS case in the Philippines, although last spring Filipino officials reported an asymptomatic MERS-CoV infection in a nurse who had recently returned from the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia reported the death of a Filipino nurse in 2013.
The Philippines has expressed growing concern over MERS-CoV rates and the potential for imported cases in the many Filipino healthcare professionals working in the Persian Gulf region.
In news from Saudi Arabia, a Feb 9 Ministry of Health (MOH) report listed the recovery of a 67-year-old man who had previously been diagnosed with MERS-CoV. The man was not a healthcare worker and had an underlying medical condition.
The new recovery brings Saudi Arabia's MERS case total to 857, of whom 476 people have recovered and 366 have died. Fifteen Saudi cases remain active.
Feb 11 Reuters story
Apr 16, 2014, CIDRAP News story on asymptomatic case in Filipino nurse
Sep 17, 2013, CIDRAP News story on death of Filipino nurse in Saudi Arabia
Feb 9 MOH update
Ten measles cases in Quebec linked to Disneyland
An outbreak of 10 measles cases in Joliette, Quebec, is linked to the Disneyland-related outbreak in the United States, the Canadian Press (CP) reported today.
A statement from the Lanaudiere health authority, which covers a region northeast of Montreal, said the 10 cases are all connected, according to the story. The statement didn't name Disneyland specifically but said the first case-patients caught the virus while visiting a park in California where other cases have been reported. Officials did not reveal the patients' ages.
The count in a widespread US measles outbreak stood at 121 cases 2 days ago, with Disneyland seen as the source for most of them.
In other developments, a measles outbreak in Illinois has now reached 10 cases, with 9 of them linked to a daycare center in the Chicago suburb of Palatine, according to media reports today.
The two latest cases involve infants connected to the KinderCare Learning Center in Palatine, the Chicago Daily Herald reported yesterday. Another case is in a student at Elgin Community College in Elgin, a city 35 miles northwest of Chicago. Reports say all 10 case-patients were unvaccinated.
Meanwhile, Georgia health officials said they have identified 35 people at risk for measles following contact with a measles-infected baby from Kyrgyzstan who was treated at an Atlanta hospital, according to a story today from the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News.
The baby was admitted to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston on Feb 6 and was discharged yesterday, the story said, citing hospital officials.
The 35 at-risk people identified by officials have not been immunized against measles or have compromised immune systems, said Patrick O'Neal, MD, director of health protection for the Georgia Department of Public Health, according to the story. He said many of them are children.
Feb 11 CP story
Feb 10 Chicago Daily Herald story
Feb 11 Savannah Morning News story