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(CNN) -- The sometimes deadly MERS-CoV virus has spread to Italy, the World Health Organization said in statements this weekend.
Middle East respiratory
symptom coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, acts like a cold virus and attacks the
respiratory system, the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention has said. But symptoms, which include fever and a cough, are
severe and can lead to pneumonia and kidney failure.
First coronavirus sufferer in France dies in hospital | Reuters
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Deadly MERS-CoV virus spreads to Italy
updated 8:12 AM EDT, Mon June 3, 2013
Source: CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Of 53 known MERS-CoV infections worldwide, 30 have ended in death
- Three Italian patients are first in their country to contract the virus
- Symptoms are cold-like but are severe and can lead to pneumonia and kidney failure
- The WHO calls the virus "a threat to the entire world"
Read a version of this story in Arabic.
(CNN) -- The sometimes deadly MERS-CoV virus has spread to Italy, the World Health Organization said in statements this weekend.
Sunday's announcement that two female patients had contracted the virus
follows one Saturday that said a 45-year-old man, who had recently
traveled to Jordan, had become infected. They are the first three known
cases in Italy.
Middle East respiratory
symptom coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, acts like a cold virus and attacks the
respiratory system, the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention has said. But symptoms, which include fever and a cough, are
severe and can lead to pneumonia and kidney failure.
Of the 53 known
infections with the virus, 30 have resulted in death since September
2012, the organization said. Precise data are not available on the total
number of people who have been infected because it is difficult to tell
how many get a mild form of the infection.
WHO tracks new virus to Middle East
How is dangerous new virus spreading?
A patient died May 28 in France after having contracted the virus during a trip to the Middle East.
The health agency said
the three Italian patients were all in stable condition. The two cases
reported Sunday were a 42-year-old woman and a 2-year-old girl who are
close contacts of the man, the WHO said.
The virus is "a threat to the entire world," the WHO's general director said last week.
It "is not a problem
that any single affected country can keep to itself or manage all by
itself," Margaret Chan said Monday in her closing remarks at the 66th
World Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
Although many of the
cases have occurred on the Arabian Peninsula, people have died of the
infection elsewhere, including in four European countries and Tunisia.
However, "all of the European cases have had a direct or indirect connection to the Middle East," the WHO said
earlier this month. But "in France and the United Kingdom, there has
been limited local transmission among close contacts who had not been to
the Middle East but had been in contact with a traveler recently
returned from the Middle East."
Coronaviruses cause
illnesses ranging from the common cold to SARS, or Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome, as well as a variety of animal diseases.
Health officials do not
yet know much about how the newly discovered virus spreads, which makes
it hard for scientists to prevent infections, Chan said.
The WHO is calling for the world to pull together its resources to study and tackle the virus.
Biological Alert: New SARS-like Virus is a 'Threat to the entire World'/First coronavirus sufferer in France dies | Reuters/CNN/WHO
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