Via Gulf Online: 775 deaths .. Saudi newspapers scream: Why spread "Corona" in our country? The Google translation and then a comment:
Over the past seven years, 775 people in Saudi Arabia have died of Corona, which appeared in the country in 2012, and since then the kingdom has not succeeded in eradicating it.
Deaths continue, as well as injuries that health authorities can save from death, make the local media scream loudly, trying to reach out to the highest authorities in the country and wonder why the disease has not been eradicated. The authorities have put in place a plan to destroy it since Years!
The newspaper "Okaz", which is a newspaper close to the Government of Riyadh wondered, in its issue on Sunday (February 17), on why not to eliminate Corona.
"At a time when the Ministry of Health has intensified its outreach through social media to alert to the severity of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (CR), she said that "There is currently no approved drug for Corona treatment.
"But the most important question that many people have been discussing is why the disease has disappeared globally and spread in Saudi Arabia, especially in the recent period?"
"The absence of the main source of the disease, which is camels, may be the reason why the virus has not settled in these countries," the newspaper said, citing the director general of the Saudi Center for Patient Safety, "The characteristics of camels in Europe are completely different from those of Arab camels."
The doctor confirmed that there is a relationship between camels and HIV; which is easy to transfer to humans, noting that the other reason for the increase in the number of injuries currently is the period of breeding camels in the months (February and March), which are the seasons with the highest individual cases in some areas.
But shepherds, despite their daily contact with camels, do not get the disease, according to Okaz, which is explained by Halwani immunity. "Some pastoralists may not have symptoms if they are infected because of their long life with camels, especially older people with chronic diseases."
Halawani also says that "the quality of the strain of the virus itself may vary in terms of virility and susceptibility and its ability to cause imbalances and complications associated."
"The increased incidence of Coronas may have been due to the development of diagnostic tests in infectious diseases, the presence of laboratory tests, and the experience gained by doctors in Saudi Arabia, which contributed to the detection of cases as accurately and as quickly as possible," he said, hinting that the virus would have been more widespread had it not been for this development, which is spoken by the doctor.
The latest deaths of the "Corona" virus in Saudi Arabia occurred on Saturday (17 February), where the local newspaper "Riyadh" reported the deaths of two injured, one recorded in the "Valley Dawser" in the capital Riyadh, and another in the city, "Khamis Mushait" (southwest) during the 24 Hours ago.
She pointed out that the total number of hypnotized or isolated cases in the current time in different regions of the Kingdom 32 cases, including 6 for health practitioners (without symptoms).
Deaths of infected people
The death toll of the virus has risen to 775 people since its emergence in the Kingdom in 2012, according to the same source.
Many scientists fear that the virus could mutate to become more spread among humans. For this reason, scientists are trying to develop vaccines to prevent human transmission, as well as to reduce the virus's spread in camels.
Scientists believe that Arabian camel is the first source of transmission of the Corona virus to humans. The virus is particularly prevalent in young camels, with infections leading to mild symptoms similar to common colds.
According to researchers, the virus is transmitted to humans when they have contact with the body fluids of infected beauty, and the outbreak of infection between camels is a serious threat to human health.
I can't find the original Okaz article, but navigating an Arabic-language website can be tricky. It may be significant that this report cites the closeness of Okaz to the government; I read it as government approval to discuss MERS beyond the bare numbers of the daily updates.
