The Ministry of Health in Saudi
Arabia announced this Saturday that the total number of deaths by Corona virus
that causes the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has
risen to 115 out of 396 infected with the virus in the country since September 2012.
And according to the ministry's
official website that the last two deceased are25 years old young man at the age of 25 years from Jeddah
and a 69 years old woman suffering from tuberculosis and anemia from Makah.
The American health announced this
Friday the first Corona virus infection in the country.
Dr. Anne Huckat director of the National Center for vaccination
at the federal Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explained that the infected person works in health care,
and he has recently traveled to Saudi Arabia, which is currently treated in a
hospital in Indiana, where he is also being isolated from the others.
Corona is a strain of the SARS
virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, which led to the death of
800 people around the world in 2003. This virus infect the lungs,
accompanied by a fever and a cough and breathing difficulties, and also lead to
the stoppage of the work of the kidneys.
Unfortunately, currently there is no vaccine against this virus, but
the Saudi Ministry of Health sought the cooperation of the five drugs companies
to find a vaccine against this virus.
And according to a study was
published in February in the United States, Corona virus may be transmitted
through camels.
We hope the cooperation sought by the ministry of health in Saudi Arabia manages to find any lead to cure the virus that threats the country, also because Saudi Arabia's special every-year-situation "Hajj And Umrah" the Muslims' special Islamic rituals that may cause a huge number of infections because of this virus.