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MERS Update: 13 More Saudi Deaths, Iran Has Their First
2014-05-30
[Ynet] Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's Health Ministry says 13 people have died over the last two weeks from the Middle Eastern respiratory virus.

The ministry says 186 people in total have died from the virus since it was discovered in 2012. The ministry said late Wednesday another 565 people had contracted the virus in Saudi Arabia.

The recent figures indicate that the rate of infections and deaths may have slightly dipped in the last two weeks after a sharp rise in infections and deaths in April and the first half of May.
And about Iran:
Iran has suffered its first fatality from the Middle Eastern respiratory virus, its official news agency reported Thursday, a day after the first cases in Islamic Theocratic Republic were publicized.

The IRNA news agency quoted Health Ministry official Mohammad Mahdi Gouya as saying the virus killed a 53-year-old woman in Kerman, a city in southeastern Iran. On Wednesday, the daily newspaper Hamshahri quoted Gouya as saying two sisters in Kerman contracted the virus.

"The women's immune system had with the disease due to chronic illness. (They were) unable to fight the virus." Gouya told IRNA.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  Our government lets them visit this country, you know. They kiss the camels, and who knows what else (we don't really wanna know, do we?), and then they come here.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-05-30 15:19  

#5  Sorry, EU, I was aiming my remarks at camel kissers and Mad Mullahs. But I guess there is some risk to the rest of us!
Posted by: Bobby   2014-05-30 13:24  

#4  Thanks, Bobbie. I'll be considering that information all day long.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-05-30 11:23  

#3  Halliburton?

Bush?

Global Warming?

'Income Inequality'?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2014-05-30 11:22  

#2  Don't forget, folks, for every identified case, there are dozens - or hundreds - of milder cases that are not noticed or identified. But those mild cases can carry the disease. MERS is all around you!
Posted by: Bobby   2014-05-30 07:50  

#1  Ukraine only had SARS before now they have SAND! Saudi's, Al Qaeda Russians, Nazi's and the D is for DUMB PEOPLE or DARPA! IT"S A TRAP! NICE KILL BOX SET UP!
Posted by: Whulet Shavins7256   2014-05-30 06:49  

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