Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with a Novel Coronavirus — Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012

Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with a Novel Coronavirus — Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012

Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with a Novel Coronavirus — Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012
CDC is working closely with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners to assess the public health risk presented by a recently detected, novel coronavirus, associated with severe respiratory illness in two men. The first patient, a man aged 60 years from Saudi Arabia, was hospitalized in June 2012 and died; the second patient, a man aged 49 years from Qatar with onset of symptoms in September 2012, was transported to the United Kingdom, where he remains hospitalized on life support. Because of the possibility of frequent updates as new information becomes available, readers are encouraged to consult the CDC coronavirus website (http://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/ncv).
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