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This undated image released by the British Health Protection Agency shows an electron microscope image of a coronavirus, part of a family of viruses that cause ailments including the common cold and SARS, which was first identified last year in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Health Protection Agency)

Second French coronavirus case confirmed

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 12, 2013 | World

Paris and Riyadh, Reuters—A second diagnosis of the new SARS-like coronavirus has been confirmed in France, the Health Ministry said on Sunday, in what appeared to be a case of human-to-human transmission. The new infection was found in a 50-year-old man who had...

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This undated image released by the British Health Protection Agency shows an electron microscope image of a coronavirus, part of a family of viruses that cause ailments including the common cold and SARS, which was first identified last year in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Health Protection Agency)

Saudi Health Ministry Confirms Coronavirus in Al-Ahsa

by Badr Al-Qahtani | May 3, 2013 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Saudi Ministry of Health (MoH) is awaiting the results of a report by a special medical commission into the deaths of five people from the coronavirus in Al-Ahsa province. Two others were admitted into intensive care, bringing the total...

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Technicians wearing protection suits begin to cull poultry at Huhuai poultry wholesale market, where the H7N9 bird flu virus was detected in pigeon samples, in Shanghai April 5, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer

China Culls Birds As Bird Flu Deaths Mount

by Alex Edwards | Apr 5, 2013 | World

Shanghai/Hong Kong, Reuters—Chinese authorities slaughtered over 20,000 birds on Friday at a poultry market in the financial hub Shanghai as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mounted to six, spreading concern overseas and sparking a sell-off on Hong...