Saudi Arabia warns of MERS risk from camels as cases rise

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Saudi Arabia warns of MERS risk from camels as cases rise

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-arabia-warns-mers-virus-risk-camels-085212344.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/IDjG60jsHW3fSAOTZREm1g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-05-11T111223Z_561188882_GM1EA5B1FRE01_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-SAUDI-CAMELS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A man wearing a mask poses with camels at a camel market in the village of al-Thamama near Riyadh" align="left" title="A man wearing a mask poses with camels at a camel market in the village of al-Thamama near Riyadh" border="0" /></a>By Sylvia Westall KUWAIT (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said people handling camels should wear masks and gloves to prevent spreading Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), issuing such a warning for the first time as cases of the potentially fatal virus neared 500 in the kingdom. Health experts say camels are the most likely animal source of infection for the disease, which the Saudi Health Ministry said on Sunday three more people had caught and four had died from. First reported two years ago in Saudi Arabia, MERS is a coronavirus like SARS, which originated in animals and killed around 800 people worldwide after first appearing in China in 2002. Around a third of the 483 diagnosed with MERS in Saudi Arabia have died.</p><br clear="all"/>

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