Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Tunis (Reuters) - A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from new coronavirus, a strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year, after a visit to Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The man, a diabetic, died in hospital in the...

LONDON (Reuters) - 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...

Another case of novel coronavirus infection in the eastern part of the kingdom was confirmed by the Ministry of Health on Saturday. "One case of coronavirus has been recorded in the Eastern region, and he is now under the medical health care receiving...

President of the Haj and Umrah Committee Osama Filaali called on the Health Ministry to make Eastern Province pilgrims undergo coronavirus testing. He said up until yesterday the committee has not received of contingency plans to deal with a possible...

Two health workers in the Kingdom have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care -- the first evidence of such transmission inside a hospital, the World Health Organization said. The new...

LONDON (Reuters) - Two health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care - the first evidence of such transmission within a hospital, the World Health...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is in talks with the UAE authorities to trace the path of the deadly coronavirus after a 65-year-old patient was hospitalised in Paris with the Sars-like virus after a visit to Dubai last month. A second person who...

* Doctor first identified virus in Saudi Arabia last year * Disease has killed at least 18 people worldwide * Doctor says world in better position than with SARS By Alexander Dziadosz CAIRO, May 13 (Reuters) - The doctor who discovered a new SARS-like...

(Removes erroneous reference to deaths in France, para 7) By Angus McDowall HOFUF, Saudi Arabia, May 12 (Reuters) - On the third day after his father's death from a respiratory infection, Hussein al-Sheikh began to feel feverish. Shortly afterwards,...

LILLE/DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) - A nurse in a hospital that held France's only confirmed case of the SARS-like coronavirus that has killed 18 people has been admitted to hospital in northern France on suspicion on being infected herself, French health...

* Victims include doctor who attended virus carrier * Tests carried out, results to be known soon - authority LILLE, France, May 9 (Reuters) - Two people who had contact with a Frenchman who is seriously ill with the new SARS-like coronavirus have...

DUBAI, May 8 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has 13 cases of a new strain of coronavirus that has emerged from the Gulf, has killed seven people in the kingdom and spread as far as Britain and France, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Saudi...