Egypt - MoH: Man, 27, traveler from Saudi Arabia hospitalized for coronavirus MERS

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Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News...-in-Egypt.html

First MERS infection detected in Egypt
AFP, Cairo
Saturday, 26 April 2014

Egypt recorded its first MERS infection after a person who arrived from Saudi Arabia tested positive for the virus, state media reported on Saturday.

MERS infections have killed 92 people in Saudi Arabia, where the coronavirus was first detected in humans in 2012.

State television reported the patient was in a Cairo hospital after arriving from Saudi Arabia. It did not provide details on the patient?s condition...

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Re: First MERS infection detected in Egypt

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Sources of health: the appearance of the first cases of infection with "Corona"

Saturday, April 26th, 2014 14:20
Sources of health: the appearance of the first cases of infection with "Corona"
Minister of Health
Started - Faten Khedive

Sources at the Ministry of Health, the appearance of the first cases of infection with coronavirus, a person at the age of 27-year-old named Ahmed Said of the Eastern Province, and a resident in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has been deposited Fever Hospital Abbasid under preventive measures tight, and being to monitor the situation and see the merits of the injury.
The sources added that the patient had been detained in the hospital admitted the Abbasid since he returned from Saudi Arabia, on Thursday, April 24th, and was detained at the airport quarantine, and was transferred to the Fever Friday, April 25th, explaining that his medium.

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Re: First MERS infection detected in Egypt

Source: http://www.trust.org/item/20140426124117-8lxq0

Egypt discovers first case of potentially deadly MERS virus
Source: Reuters - Sat, 26 Apr 2014 01:07 PM


CAIRO, April 26 (Reuters) - Egypt has discovered its first case of the potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in an Egyptian citizen who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia, Egypt's Ministry of Health said on Saturday...

...The patient, 27, is being treated for pneumonia at a Cairo hospital and is in a stable condition, the ministry said in a statement.

The man, who is from the Nile Delta, was living in the Saudi capital Riyadh, the ministry said...

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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

Disease Outbreak News

1 MAY 2014 - On 26 April 2014, the Ministry of Health of Egypt reported the first laboratory-confirmed case of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the country.

The patient is a 27 year-old man who has been living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the past 4 years. The patient had contact with a previously laboratory-confirmed case (his uncle) who died on 19 April, and another laboratory-confirmed case (neighbour of his uncle) who is still under treatment in a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The patient became ill on 22 April, returned to Egypt on 25 April and was laboratory-confirmed with MERS-CoV on 26 April. The patient is currently in a stable condition.

WHO has mobilized a team to support Saudi Arabia to review the current situation, identify information gaps to better understand the public health risk associated with the current upsurge in cases, particularly in health-care settings, and to determine the type of further investigations to be conducted, in order to understand the transmission chain and health care associated transmission.

more...

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_05_01_mers/en/