Saudi Arabia reports two more deaths from SARS-like virus

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/06/saudi-arabia-reports-two-more-deaths-from-sars-like-virus/

A new SARS-like virus has killed two more people in Saudi Arabia, taking the number of deaths from the coronavirus that the kingdom has announced to seven in one week, the health ministry said.

“The health ministry has announced that three infections by the new coronavirus have been registered during the past days in Al-Ahsaa. Two of the victims have died while the third is in a stable condition,” state news agency SPA said late Sunday.

The report did not identify the nationality of the latest victims.

On Wednesday, the health ministry announced five Saudis recently died of the SARS-like virus and that two more were being treated in an intensive care unit.

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1. It would be interesting to know just who it's killing

whether it's children and the elderly or it's following the 1918 pandemic and killing the young and healthy or if it's killing 2/3 of everybody it infects. It would also be nice to know if person to person transmission has been documented.

I really hate it when stuff like this happens in countries that don't have the CDC. WHO is slower.