Curious - a new SARS Coronavirus from Saudi Arabia
More lethal although this is just the preliminary and there could be a number of non-lethal low-level cases out there unreported.
From
The Washington Post:
SARS-like virus has high mortality rate in Saudi Arabia, specialists say
A new virus responsible for an outbreak of respiratory illness in the Middle East may be more deadly than SARS, according to a team of infectious disease specialists who recently investigated a set of cases in Saudi Arabia.
Of 23 confirmed cases in April, 15 people died � an �extremely high� fatality rate of 65 percent, according to Johns Hopkins senior epidemiologist Trish Perl, a member of the team that analyzed the spread of the virus through four Saudi hospitals.
There is a cultural preference for inbreeding over there -- I know that a lot of the Saudi Royal family have issues with hemophilia due to this. I wonder if this makes a person more sensitive to respiratory problems too...
Posted by DaveH at June 19, 2013 8:06 PM