Worldwide: 24 confirmed cases due to novel animal nCoV coronavirus - 16 fatalities - September 20, 2012 - May 2, 2013

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/ar...ion-including-2-in-same-family-180606411.html

Cluster of coronavirus cases raises spectre of person to person spread: WHO
By: Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press
Posted: 10:50 AM | Comments: 0 | Last Modified: 6:56 PM

A cluster of infections caused by the new coronavirus is being investigated to see if it was triggered by person-to-person spread, the World Health Organization said Friday.

The WHO announced four new cases of the virus, three of which occurred in Saudi Arabia. The fourth was a man from Qatar who travelled to Germany for care....

...All the confirmed cases have been men, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said in an email...

...Up till now there has been no suggestion of person-to-person spread of the virus, prompting authorities to say the virus didn't pose a global threat. But this cluster in Saudi Arabia may change thinking on that.

Two men in a single household fell ill and tested positive for the virus. One of the two died.

Two other members of the same household were sick at the same time with similar symptoms; one of those men died as well. The survivor tested negative for the virus, but results are still pending on the testing of samples taken from the man who died, the WHO said Friday.

Chaib said if there was human-to-human spread in this case it looks like it petered out. She said work is underway to try to tease out whether the people were all infected from a single non-human source, or if one member of the household picked up the infection and passed it along...

 

[Giuseppe]

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 6 confirmed cases (2 fatal) due to novel animal coronavirus

As said in the WHO statement (http://www.who.int/csr/don/2012_11_23/en/index.html ) it is conceivable that the new coronavirus (nCov) is likely more widely distributed than the confirmed cases only two nations of origin may suggest.

Since the first case was discovered, several months passed and - with all the unknowns regarding the nCoV - it is possible that a number of mild or asymptomatic cases went unnoticed in several locations.

Thus, it is imperative to spot as earlier as possible every cluster of severe respiratory illness and investigate them irrespective of the location where they happened, as well as every instance of severe acute respiratory infection in health care professionals that may signal the occurrence of a new pathogen.

With the winter season influenza epidemics on the way, the sentinel and non-sentinel surveillance for SARI may play a great role in detecting unexplained increases in pneumonia & influenza-like illness cluster around the Northern Hemisphere countries.

Clearly, it is too early to draw any conclusion about the natural history of this nCoV-related illness in humans but since the international situation is of concern, with special regard to southern european countries, where health care system is already under pressure because of the sovereign debts crisis and thus the surveillance system may be somewhat impaired in its sensitivity, as well as the Middle-East region where concurrent crises (social, economical and political) put on strain the health systems; the possible generalized unrest in the area coupled with armed conflicts are the best scenario for the spread of a new pathogen.

EU region should take seriously the situation with a transparent management of the information and communication of the risk to the public. (IOH)

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 6 confirmed cases (2 fatal) due to novel animal coronavirus

Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 6 confirmed cases (2 fatal) due to novel animal coronavirus

So the fatal confirmed case, #6, is the son of the pending suspected fatality.

http://www.sfgate.com/world/article...ted-virus-confirmed-4062823.php#ixzz2D76t74K3

WHO reported a cluster of four cases in October in a family living in the same household in Saudi Arabia, in which a father and son both fell ill with symptoms including pneumonia, fever and respiratory problems. The father, 70, died after developing renal failure. His son was hospitalized shortly afterward and died four days later after multiorgan failure. The son was confirmed with the coronavirus while the father's results are pending.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 6 confirmed cases (2 fatal) due to novel animal coronavirus

Via Helen Branswell

machinetranslation

Essen University Hospital: coronavirus patient treated without special precautions

Veronika Hackenbroch, Cologne

Tension to the health authorities: A man from Qatar had been infected with the novel coronavirus that causes SARS-like symptoms. Doctors at the University Hospital Essen have treated the patient for four weeks - with no idea of ​​what he suffered a dangerous pathogen.

When the man from Qatar on 24 October in the Ruhrlandklinik, the Lung Center, University of Essen was admitted, he was already sick for 19 days, and the doctors in his country did not go on: his lung tissue was severely damaged by an infection, denied the vital organ. Only one treatment at a specialist clinic in how the food he could not save his life. By plane, he was transferred to Germany.

What the doctors from Qatar German colleagues not said was that they suspected, the patient could have been infected with the new coronavirus.

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The risk that an employee of the Essen hospital or other patients could have been infected with the man with the novel agents estimate the clinic and the RKI indeed be low. Even if the virus could actually be transmitted from person to person, what is still unclear whether the man than on his 19th Illness had come for food, probably hardly been infectious, it said in a statement. In addition, he had been lying in a single room. To date, no hospital staff had shown symptoms of infection.

Read more: der Spiegel

 

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 6 confirmed cases (2 fatal) due to novel animal coronavirus

If this is true, this doesn't look like H2H at all, but rather a common occupational exposure.

http://www.cp24.com/world/experts-express-concern-about-new-coronavirus-1.1052149


The WHO's new advice was contained in a statement the agency released Friday in which it announced the global count of confirmed infections with the new virus has risen to six. Two of the confirmed cases have died. All six cases were male.

It also revealed that Saudi Arabia has reported a cluster of cases, with two men confirmed and two others under investigation. The four men shared a household in an undisclosed part of the country.

All four were sick around the same time, suffering similar symptoms, the WHO said. Of the two men under investigation, one died. Test results are still pending on samples taken from the man during his illness.

The other man survived and tested negative for the virus, the WHO said. But it did not disclose the type of test used or when the testing was done.

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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/a...ises-transparency-concerns-for-health-experts

Latest WHO warning about new coronavirus raises transparency concerns for health experts

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It also revealed that Saudi Arabia has reported a cluster of cases, with two men confirmed and two others under investigation. The four men shared a household in an undisclosed part of the country.

All four were sick around the same time, suffering similar symptoms, the WHO said. Of the two men under investigation, one died. Test results are still pending on samples taken from the man during his illness.

The other man survived and tested negative for the virus, the WHO said. But it did not disclose the type of test used or when the testing was done.

Until more information is known, it is not clear that the test result can be considered reliable, said Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

The reliability of the test could vary, depending on when the person was tested, what kind of test was used and the kind and calibre of the specimen being tested, he said.

?If the person had an illness similar to the other illnesses, then ... I believe that you?d have to consider that this test may have been a false negative,? said Osterholm, adding testing the survivor?s blood for antibodies would shed some light on the situation.

Both the changing WHO advice and the lack of clarity on the testing underscore a problem with this situation, both Osterholm and Fouchier suggested.

Very little about the cases is being publicly shared. And the international teams of scientists who travelled to Saudi Arabia to look for possible sources of the virus have released no information about their investigations.

Fouchier was front and centre in the laboratory effort during the 2003 SARS outbreak. It was his lab, at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, that proved what?s called Koch?s postulates ? conducting the test that confirmed that the newly identified coronavirus was actually causing the disease SARS.

During the early days of the SARS outbreak, the WHO rapidly put together a virtual network of laboratories, tapping into expertise around the world to combat the alarming new disease.

But this time? In the summer, Fouchier?s lab identified and sequenced the new coronavirus and developed a test for it. But since then, it?s been ?radio silence,? Fouchier said in an interview Friday.

?Everything I?ve heard since then has just come from the lay press, which is completely in contrast to how we acted back in the SARS era,? he said.

?That was completely different during the SARS outbreak. We were all talking together, exchanging results and giving each other ideas about what to test, how to test, where to test. And none of that is happening now. We just have to rely that they?re doing the right thing.?

Officials in the know should be sharing more information, Osterholm agreed.

?At this point in any outbreak investigation, there clearly is more information that is known by health officials than likely has been shared,? he said.

?But if there were ever a time for complete transparency, now is the time. We?ve learned that in the past and I?d hate to see us have to relearn the lesson again.?

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[Giuseppe]

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 6 confirmed cases (2 fatal) due to novel animal coronavirus

If this is true, this doesn't look like H2H at all, but rather a common occupational exposure.

http://www.cp24.com/world/experts-express-concern-about-new-coronavirus-1.1052149


The WHO's new advice was contained in a statement the agency released Friday in which it announced the global count of confirmed infections with the new virus has risen to six. Two of the confirmed cases have died. All six cases were male.

It also revealed that Saudi Arabia has reported a cluster of cases, with two men confirmed and two others under investigation. The four men shared a household in an undisclosed part of the country.

All four were sick around the same time, suffering similar symptoms, the WHO said. Of the two men under investigation, one died. Test results are still pending on samples taken from the man during his illness.

The other man survived and tested negative for the virus, the WHO said. But it did not disclose the type of test used or when the testing was done.

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This is, for example, the case of this cluster of SARS-CoV infections in health care workers in Toronto Canada:

Clinical course and management of SARS in health care workers in Toronto: a case series

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Monica Avendano, Peter Derkach, Susan Swan
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Early release, published at www.cmaj.ca on May 28, 2003. Revised on May 29, 2003.

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Abstract
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Background:

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has only
recently been described. We provide individual patient data
on the clinical course, treatment and complications experienced
by 14 front-line health care workers and hospital support
staff in Toronto who were diagnosed with SARS, and we
provide follow-up information for up to 3 weeks after their discharge
from hospital.

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Methods:

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As part of the initial response to the SARS outbreak in
Toronto, our health care centre was asked to establish a SARS
unit for health care workers who were infected. Patients were
admitted to this unit and were closely monitored and treated until
they were well enough to be discharged. We prospectively
compiled information on their clinical course, management and
complications and followed them for 3 weeks after discharge.​

Results​

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The 11 women and 3 men described here (mean age 42
[standard deviation {SD} 9] years) were all involved in providing
medical or ancillary hospital services to patients who were later
found to have SARS. Onset of symptoms in 4 of our patients
who could clearly identify only a single contact with a patient
with SARS occurred on average 4 (SD 3) days after exposure. For
the remaining 10 patients with multiple patient contacts, symptom
onset followed exposure by a mean of 3.5 (SD 3) days after
their exposure. All patients were treated with ribavirin, and all
patients received levofloxacin. Many experienced major complications.
Dyspnea was present in 12 patients during their stay in
hospital, and all developed abnormalities on chest radiograph; 3
patients developed severe hypoxemia (PaO2 < 50 mm Hg). All
patients experienced a drop in hemoglobin. Nine patients had
hemolytic anemia. Three patients experienced numbness and
tingling in their hands and feet, and 2 developed frank tetany.
All 3 had magnesium levels that were less than 0.1 mmol/L. All
patients recovered and were discharged home. At a follow-up
examination 3 weeks after discharge (5 weeks after onset of illness),
all patients were no longer weak but continued to become
fatigued easily and had dyspnea on minimal exertion. For 5 patients,​

chest radiographs still showed residual disease.

Interpretation:

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SARS is a very serious illness even in healthy, relatively
young people. The clinical course in our patients, all of
whom met the case definition for SARS (which requires pulmonary
involvement), resulted in dyspnea and, in some individuals,
severe hypoxemia. Severe hemolytic anemia may be a
feature of SARS or may be a complication of therapy, possibly​

with ribavirin.

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[Shiloh]

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 6 confirmed cases (2 fatal) due to novel animal coronavirus

Source: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/...lness+more+widespread+says/7615515/story.html

New coronavirus cases suggest source of illness may be more widespread, WHO says
By Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press November 27, 2012 7:17 AM

Clues gleaned from the most recent infections with the new coronavirus are behind the World Health Organization's decision to warn countries to broaden their surveillance for cases, an expert with the agency says.

The Geneva-based global health body now believes the risk of exposure to the new virus may exist beyond Saudi Arabia and Qatar, so telling countries they need only look for sick people with travel or residency links to those countries may be misleading and counterproductive.

It's not that the WHO has proof of infections from elsewhere. The issue is rather that its disease experts can think of no reason why a virus that has popped up in different parts of Saudi Arabia and in Qatar would be limited to those two countries...

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Source: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/...erts+express+concern+about/7604550/story.html

With little information shared, experts express concern about new coronavirus
By Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press November 26, 2012

The World Health Organization has warned countries to heighten their surveillance for possible cases of infection with the new coronavirus, suggesting patients with unexplained pneumonias should be tested even if they don't have links to Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The agency also suggested investigating clusters of severe respiratory infections, and clusters of such illnesses in health-care workers, regardless of where they happen in the world.

Up until now the WHO has said that testing for the new coronavirus should be restricted to patients with severe respiratory infections who had recently travelled to or who were residents of a country that had recorded cases. To date the only confirmed infections have been in Qatari and Saudi nationals...

 

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 6 confirmed cases (2 fatal) due to novel animal coronavirus

Read the whole article...

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/wo...ay-be-more-widespread-who-says-180953081.html

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Mounts says when the first two infections with this virus were spotted, in June and then September, both men had been in Mecca, Saudia Arabia, before they got sick. As such the chance existed that the source of infection ? which is currently unknown ? was only found there.

But the newest infections show that isn't possible. Some of the Saudi cases had not been to Mecca before they got sick. They live in and fell ill in Riyadh, the capital. And the most recent case from Qatar lives in Doha and had not recently travelled outside the country.

With people falling ill in different places, it seems unlikely that the risk of infection exists only in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, WHO experts believe.

As well, two of the more recent cases were not as sick as the first cases, Mounts notes. They were seriously sick ? they needed mechanical help breathing for a time ? but they didn't experience the kidney failure seen in the first two cases.

"So that indicates to us that there is a milder form of the disease. It doesn't always involve multi-organ failure and so on," Mounts says.

"But how mild it could be is unknown. And you know, that's basically because where we look for this is in hospitals. And people have not yet started to test milder cases in the area."

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 6 confirmed cases (2 fatal) due to novel animal coronavirus

Translation Google

France - INVS -

Published 28/11/2012
Weekly International Bulletin
November 21 to 27 2012. N°375.

Excerpt:

Commentary:
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To this day knowledge about the new coronavirus is very limited, in particular the potential reservoir of the virus, exposure factors, routes of transmission, geographical distribution, the incubation period, the clinic and the duration of infectiousness.

In addition, the available data on reported cases are very limited. Particular, there is very little information on diagnostic tests to exclude other potential respiratory pathogens (influenza, etc.)..

The occurrence of family clusters is worrying, however, the available data do not allow to affirm or refute a possible human transmission or exclude a common factor exposure. To date, no suspected cases have been reported in the entourage of the four other isolated cases.

At this stage the hypothesis of the source of the virus most likely remains zoonotic or environmental with accidental transmission to people.

Pending the results of ongoing investigations, the situation should be carefully monitored.

[...]
http://www.invs.sante.fr/Publicatio...nternational-du-21-au-27-novembre-2012.-N-375

 

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Well, some of the reporting above is bad. WHO is now reporting 7 confirmed and 1 probable case, confirming the third case in the cluster:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=195697

They are also only reporting one death total, which must be the Saudi man in June, so all four cases in the cluster are still alive? How could they have made this error? We had multiple sources mention two fatalities in the cluster. And the case that they just confirmed was previously reported to have died.

Or is the latest WHO report the incorrect one?

 

[sharon sanders]

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 6 confirmed cases (2 fatal) due to novel animal coronavirus

Well, some of the reporting above is bad. WHO is now reporting 7 confirmed and 1 probable case, confirming the third case in the cluster:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=195697

They are also only reporting one death total, which must be the Saudi man in June, so all four cases in the cluster are still alive? How could they have made this error? We had multiple sources mention two fatalities in the cluster. And the case that they just confirmed was previously reported to have died.

Or is the latest WHO report the incorrect one?

Unknown.

The latest official WHO GAR report dated November 23 says 2 deaths:

"Of the 6 laboratory confirmed cases reported to WHO, 4 cases (including 2 deaths) are from Saudi Arabia and 2 cases are from Qatar."

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2012_11_23/en/index.html

 

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 7 confirmed cases due to novel animal coronavirus - unclear number of fatalities

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/other/sars/news/nov2912corona.html

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Details on third case
A team of Saudi and British authors provided details on the third novel coronavirus case, which was first announced by Saudi authorities Nov 4. The 45-year-old patient was hospitalized for 22 days and needed breathing support and hemodialysis before his eventual recovery, according to the report.

The article describes the patient as a heavy smoker who has type 2 diabetes, a history of ischemic heart disease, and only one functioning kidney.

Three days before his illness onset, the man visited a farm near his home and had brief contact with farm animals. The report does not mention any illness among the animals. The man had not traveled outside Riyadh before his illness, but he had been in contact with one of his children, who had a mild cold.

The patient fell ill on Oct 9, was seriously ill by Oct 12, and was moved to an intensive care unit (ICU) the next day. He needed breathing assistance for several days, and he received dialysis treatments for renal failure from Oct 15 to 23. He was finally released from the hospital Nov 4.

The man tested negative for a wide range of viruses and bacterial pathogens. But respiratory specimens tested positive for the novel coronavirus upE gene in two labs, a Saudi Arabian health ministry lab in Jeddah and the UK Health Protection Agency lab in Birmingham. The virus was not found in the patient's stool, plasma, or serum specimens.

The authors sequenced small pieces of two of the coronavirus genes from this case and the first case, which involved a Saudi Arabian man who died in June. They found that the sequences were identical to one another and to the same gene fragments from the second novel coronavirus case (the Qatari patient in London).

The authors comment that exposure to farm animals was identified as a risk factor in the first novel coronavirus case, but add that such exposures appear to be "an insignificant risk factor for cases 2 and 3."

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 7 confirmed cases due to novel animal coronavirus - 3 fatalities

Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 7 confirmed cases due to novel animal coronavirus - 3 fatalities

The WHO-document has been corrected:

"Of the seven confirmed cases, five developed acute renal failure and three of these died".


http://www.who.int/csr/disease/coro...nceRecommendations_nCoVinfection_28Nov12u.pdf

As of 28 November 2012, seven confirmed and one probable case of novel coronavirus infection in humans are known to have occurred. These cases range in time from June through November 2012 and occurred in the areas around Jeddah and Riyadh of Saudi Arabia (which are about 850 km apart), and in Doha, Qatar. Infection with the virus appears to have been acquired locally in each of these situations. All of the patients were male but the significance of this is unknown.

The clinical picture in all cases was an acute respiratory infection presenting with signs and symptoms of pneumonia. Of the seven confirmed cases, five developed acute renal failure and three of these died. The remaining two confirmed cases had pneumonia that required intensive support, without renal failure, and recovered. Three of the seven confirmed cases and the one probable case all belong to the same family and were living in the same household.

 

[Treyfish]

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Changing all the time.

According quoted Network (IRIN), a spokesman for the World Health Organization Thomas Glynn that and who said: It is based on our understanding of the virus so far, due to the strengthening of controls, we expect to report more cases, and confirm HIV infection. "
and added, "We also expect to see more cases in other countries.
explained that scientists organization working on a cause of the infection, and to ascertain whether the virus is transmitted from one person to another or not. :tiphat:http://dostor.org/الأخبار/قلب-مصر/1...تطلق-إنذارًا-دوليًا-بعد-وفاة-حالتين-بـ-السارس

 

[Treyfish]

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New SARS-related coronavirus claims a third life

The recommendations were revised two days later to say that five of the seven confirmed cases had ?developed acute renal failure and three of these died.?

According to Thomas, the surveillance recommendations are in the process of being updated with clarifications on the number of cases. ?Significant information? about the novel coronavirus will be announced on the WHO?s website, under the Disease Outbreak News section, Thomas said in an email Friday morning.

The WHO recommendations describe the clinical picture of the new coronavirus as an acute respiratory infection. All of the confirmed cases showed signs of pneumonia..
:tiphat:http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1295819--new-sars-related-coronavirus-claims-a-third-life

 

[Treyfish]

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar: 7 confirmed cases due to novel animal coronavirus - 3 fatalities

Novel coronavirus infection - update

30 NOVEMBER 2012 - In addition to the fatal case of novel coronavirus in Saudi Arabia reported to WHO on 28 November, two fatal cases in Jordan have been reported to WHO today, bringing the total of laboratory-confirmed cases to nine.

The latest confirmed case from Saudi Arabia occurred in October 2012 and is from the family cluster of the two cases confirmed earlier.

The two cases from Jordan occurred in April 2012. At that time, a number of severe pneumonia cases occurred in the country and the Ministry of Health (MOH) Jordan promptly requested a WHO Collaborating Centre for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (NAMRU – 3) team to immediately assist in the laboratory investigation. The NAMRU-3 team went to Jordan and tested samples from this cluster of cases.

On 24 April 2012 the NAMRU-3 team informed the MOH that all samples had tested negative for known coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses. As the novel coronavirus had not yet been discovered, no specific tests for it were available.

In October 2012, after the discovery of the novel coronavirus, stored samples were sent by MOH Jordan to NAMRU-3. In November 2012 NAMRU-3 provided laboratory results that confirmed two cases of infection with the novel coronavirus.

The MOH Jordan has requested WHO assistance in investigating these infections. A mission from WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) and headquarters arrived in Amman on 28 November 2012 to assist in further epidemiological surveillance and to strengthen the sentinel surveillance systems for severe acute respiratory infections (SARIs).

In summary, to date a total of nine laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with the novel coronavirus have been reported to WHO – five cases (including 3 deaths) from Saudi Arabia, two cases from Qatar and two cases (both fatal) from Jordan.:tiphat:http://www.who.int/csr/don/2012_11_30/en/index.html

 

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Amazing find, Treyfish. I have copied the article to the Jordan thread, and am in the process of moving it and renaming both threads.

It is unclear the status of the fatalities in Saudi Arabia at this point; by my count, there have now been 5 fatalities in 9 cases.

 

[Treyfish]

Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan: 9 confirmed cases due to novel animal coronavirus - 3-5 fatalities

Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan: 9 confirmed cases due to novel animal coronavirus - 3-5 fatalities

At least 5 dead. The way the reporting is, we should hear of 5 more within a month or 2

 

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Re: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan: 9 confirmed cases due to novel animal coronavirus - 3-5 fatalities

At least 5 dead. The way the reporting is, we should hear of 5 more within a month or 2

Let us not forget that there are at least nine additional hospitalized contacts in the Jordan outbreak, that should now be considered probable infections.

This also moves the earliest onset in the outbreak back from June to early April, meaning this virus has been around for nearly 8 months, longer than the entire 2003 SARS outbreak.