Health officials keep eye on new virus from Middle East

Global health officials are closely monitoring a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left a Qatari citizen in critical condition in London.

The germ is a coronavirus, from a family of viruses that cause the common cold as well as SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome that killed about 800 people, mostly in Asia, in a 2003 epidemic.

In the latest case, British officials alerted the World Health Organization on Saturday of the new virus in a man who transferred from Qatar for treatment in London. He had recently traveled to Saudi Arabia and is now being treated

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http://www.ezonearticle.com/2012/09/25/health-officials-keep-eye-on-new-virus-from-middle-east/