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WHO: Saudi Arabia has another case of new coronavirus

Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday.In a disease outbreak update issued from its Geneva headquarters, the WHO said the latest patient is an 81-year-old woman with multiple medical conditions. She became ill on April 28 and is in a critical but stable condition.Worldwide, there have now been 41 laboratory-confirmed infections, including 20 deaths, since the new coronavirus was identified by scientists in September 2012.The novel coronavirus, which had been known as by the acronym nCoV but which some scientific journals now refer to as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, or MERS, belongs to the same family as viruses that cause common colds and the one that caused a deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003.MERS cases have so far been reported in Saudi Arabia, Jordan...

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  1. Saudi Arabia reports latest death from new virus

    Saudi Arabia says it has recorded another death from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 16.Saudi Arabia r...

  2. Saudi Arabia to permit women to compete in Olympics for 1st time at London Games

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  7. Geithner in Saudi Arabia

    FBN's Rich Edson reports on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's speech in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia .

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