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Novel coronavirus infection: time to stay ahead of the curve (WHO/EMRO, May 21 2013, extract)
[Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, Volume 19, Supplement 1 (Coronavirus), full PDF document: http://applications.emro.who.int/emhj/v19/Supp1/EMHJ_2013_19_Supp1_S3_S4.pdf. Extract.]
Editorial
Novel coronavirus infection: time to stay ahead of the curve
Ala Alwan,1 Jaouad Mahjour 2 and Ziad A. Memish 3
(1)Regional Director, World Health Organization Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt. (2)Director, Department of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, World Health Organization Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt. (3)Deputy Minister of Health for Public Health, Ministry of Health, Riyadh; Professor, College of Medicine, Al Faisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Correspondence to Ziad A. Memish: zmemish@yahoo.com ).
In 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) steered an unprecedented global response to successfully control severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a new disease caused by a previously unknown coronavirus. This became the first major international health emergency in the 21st century [1]. Almost 10 years later in June 2012, the discovery of another novel strain of SARS-like coronavirus [2] sparked similar alarm. This virus belongs to the same family of viruses that caused SARS in 2003. It also causes unusually severe pneumonia and death in a majority of patients [3]. Because a significant proportion of cases have been acquired in our region, it has had a significant impact on the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Editorial
Novel coronavirus infection: time to stay ahead of the curve
Ala Alwan,1 Jaouad Mahjour 2 and Ziad A. Memish 3
(1)Regional Director, World Health Organization Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt. (2)Director, Department of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, World Health Organization Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt. (3)Deputy Minister of Health for Public Health, Ministry of Health, Riyadh; Professor, College of Medicine, Al Faisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Correspondence to Ziad A. Memish: zmemish@yahoo.com ).
In 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) steered an unprecedented global response to successfully control severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a new disease caused by a previously unknown coronavirus. This became the first major international health emergency in the 21st century [1]. Almost 10 years later in June 2012, the discovery of another novel strain of SARS-like coronavirus [2] sparked similar alarm. This virus belongs to the same family of viruses that caused SARS in 2003. It also causes unusually severe pneumonia and death in a majority of patients [3]. Because a significant proportion of cases have been acquired in our region, it has had a significant impact on the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean.
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