Saudi Arabia revealed today that it has recorded seven new cases of the mysterious infection recently, and five of the people are already dead.
That brings the total case count for the new disease to 24 cases, with 16 deaths.
Electron micrograph image released by the British Health Protection Agency shows a coronavirus, which was first identified last year in the Middle East. (Health Protection Agency/Associated Press) There were few details in the official Saudi announcement and no indication of whether the cases might have been linked.
Disease experts are anxiously watching this new coronavirus to see if it will acquire the ability to spread from human to human, so knowing if cases are sporadic or linked is important.
The virus is from the same family as the SARS coronavirus and causes similarly severe disease when it infects people.
Though the first known cases occurred in April 2012, to date there is no clear picture of where the virus comes from or how people become infected.
Cases have been seen in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Britain. The British cases — a family cluster involving three people — involved a man who returned to Britain ill after travelling in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
The majority of cases to date have been from Saudi Arabia.
Germany has also reported two cases, but they were in people from Qatar and the UAE who travelled by air ambulance to German hospitals to seek care for their infections.
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