The Saudi health minister has said that authorities are optimistic that October's hajj pilgrimage to the kingdom will pass without outbreaks of the deadly MERS coronavirus.
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No MERS outbreaks were recorded at last year's hajj, nor during the Umrah season in July and August of this year.
Saudi Arabia has "longstanding experience" dealing with health challenges brought by the large numbers of people who come to the kingdom -- home to Islam's holiest sites.
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Authorities have urged the elderly and chronically ill to avoid the event and have reduced the number of people they will allow to perform come.
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MERS Virus Death Toll Hits 33
SARS-like virus MERS has raised the global death toll to 33, the WHO claims
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With the exception of a cluster of cases in the eastern town of Al-Ihsa, the focal point of the outbreak has been the capital, scientists said Friday in an online report published on The Lancet.
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It is considered a cousin of the SARS virus that erupted in Asia in 2003 and infected 8,273 people, nine percent of whom died.
Like SARS, MERS is thought to have jumped from animals to humans, and it shares the former's flu-like symptoms -- but differs by also causing kidney failure.
Source-AFP
