{"id":6578,"date":"2024-05-14T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:08:49","slug":"mers-outbreak-in-saudi-arabia-puts-health-experts-on-high-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/14\/mers-outbreak-in-saudi-arabia-puts-health-experts-on-high-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Mers outbreak in Saudi Arabia puts health experts on high alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/mers-outbreak-saudi-arabia-middle-east-respiratory-syndrome\/\">Telegraph<\/a> Officials race to determine infection source after three people with no direct contact to camels contract the deadly coronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health agencies are racing to determine the origins of a Mers outbreak in Saudi Arabia, after three people with no direct contact to camels contracted the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pathogen, known as Middle East respiratory syndrome, is a close relative of Sars-Cov-2 but has a far higher fatality rate \u2013 35 per cent of confirmed cases have died, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus comes from dromedary camels, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/mers-outbreak-middle-east-respiratory-syndrome-abu-dhabi\/\">most previous outbreaks<\/a>&nbsp;have been traced back to people working in close contact with the mammals or their raw milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet authorities have not been able to link the current outbreak \u2013 which was detected when a 56-year-old school teacher in the capital Riyadh went to hospital in early April \u2013 to the animals, raising concerns that milder cases could be spreading undetected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/mers-outbreak-saudi-arabia-middle-east-respiratory-syndrome\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph Officials race to determine infection source after three people with no direct contact to camels contract the deadly coronavirus. Health agencies are racing to determine the origins of a Mers outbreak in Saudi Arabia, after three people with no direct contact to camels contracted the coronavirus. The pathogen, known as Middle East respiratory syndrome, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6579,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions\/6579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}