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With reasons currently unclear, Saudi Arabia is being very reticent about releasing information about the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, the latest pathogenic corona virus to be discovered. The Muslim month of fasting, Ramadan, begins July 9 and could draw as many as two million people from around the globe to the holy sites of Saudi Arabia in a pilgrimage called "umrah.". The even-larger hadj follows in October with more millions. The scientific community has been worried about the possibility that superspreaders will emerge, as they did during SARS. Most people who contracted SARS passed the virus to at most one other person. But some SARS patients infected large numbers of people. One patient in Singapore infected 62 others; a woman who fell ill in the early days of the Toronto outbreak infected 44. With SARS, superspreaders turned a virus that likely would have burned itself out into a global outbreak that claimed 916 lives.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:19:06 +0000

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