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WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED HERE AT THE HOSPITAL: I WANT MY FB FRIENDS TO KNOW TOO: As Flu Season Approaches, a Threat from the Middle East Even as they prepare for flu season, University of Colorado Hospital experts are monitoring a threat on a distant horizon. It’s the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a strain first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Through September 23, 130 cases had been reported, 83 percent of them in Saudi Arabia. Forty-five percent of those who contracted it died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The MERS virus is in the same family as the one that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a severe form of pneumonia discovered in 2003 that is considered more infectious. The means of transmission – the air, droplets, direct contact, or a combination thereof – of MERS has not yet been identified. No cases have been reported in the United States, but a confluence of the start of flu season with Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, in mid-October is cause for concern, said Michelle Barron, MD, infectious disease medical director for UCH.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:20:11 +0000

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