Via Google News, a report from The Press Association: Man contracts new Sars-type virus. Excerpt:
A man from Qatar is being treated at a London hospital after contracting a potentially fatal Sars-like virus, health experts have said.
The 49-year-old is being treated at an intensive care unit after becoming infected with a new type of coronavirus, said the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Coronaviruses cause most common colds but can also cause Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome). In 2003, hundreds of people died after a Sars outbreak in Asia.
The patient, who was suffering from acute respiratory syndrome and renal failure, was admitted to an intensive care unit in Doha, Qatar, on September 7. He was transferred to the UK by air ambulance on September 11. Before he became ill he had travelled to Saudi Arabia, a WHO spokesman said.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said the man has contracted a "new virus" which has only been identified in one other case. The 60-year-old patient from Saudi Arabia died as a result of the virus.
A HPA spokeswoman said that preliminary inquiries have found no contact between the two patients.
Professor John Watson, head of the respiratory diseases department at the HPA, said: "The HPA is providing advice to healthcare workers to ensure the patient under investigation is being treated appropriately."
