2012-09-25

Mysterious illness in Saudi Arabia

Negative social mood increases the risk of a disease outbreak, for example SARS arrived in late 2002 at the tail end of recession.
Mysterious Virus Emerges in the Middle East
Global health authorities are hunting for cases of a mysterious viral respiratory illness that killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left another who traveled there in intensive care in a U.K. hospital.

Health officials said the source of the virus infecting both is unknown, though they have identified it as a coronavirus, part of a large family of viruses that in most cases cause common colds, but also have caused SARS.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome erupted in China in late 2002 and spread to a number of countries, infecting more than 8,000 people and killing about 775 before it disappeared in mid 2003.

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