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MERS Cluster In Jubail Royal Commission Hospital
Recombinomics Commentary
18:00
November 1, 2013
It is noteworthy that فاتين two cases were in the past week after injuries to the same disease in a hospital in the Royal Commission for Jubail Industrial and considers the latter case is the third with the presence of suspected cases have been isolated in the same hospital
The above translation has more detail on the MERS case (83F) whose confirmation and death were recently cited by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health. This case had been hospitalized for a month prior to developing MERS symptoms strongly suggesting she was infected by the index case (54M) who also died (based on multiple independent local media reports over the past week). The most recent confirmed case (56F) was reported after her death and as noted in the translation above, all were in the Royal Commission Hospital in Jubail (see map).
In addition to the fatal confirmed cases described above, media reports cite 3 more cases in the ICU in the same hospital. One is a teenager (15F), while the other two are in the sixth decade of life, indicating they are distinct from one confirmed case in the eastern region (49M) and may be distinct from the hospitalized health care worker (56M), who is also in Jubail.
The geographic and temporal relationship to the index case suggest he was a super spread and may be linked to all of the confirmed and suspect cases in the eastern region.
KSA-MoH and WHO have yet to acknowledge the death of the index case or to detail the linkage between the index case and the various confirmed and suspect cases including those at the Royal Commission Hospital.
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