Wednesday, June 5, 2013

WHO expert team, including Canadian, in Saudi investigating MERS outbreak

BY HELEN BRANSWELL, THE CANADIAN PRESS JUNE 4, 2013

TORONTO - A World Health Organization-led group of experts is in Saudi Arabia trying to get to the bottom of what is happening there with the new MERS coronavirus.
Canadian SARS expert Dr. Allison McGeer of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital is part of the team, which began its work Tuesday.
McGeer was recently in Saudi Arabia at the behest of the kingdom's government, helping to investigate a MERS outbreak in a hospital at Al-Ahsa in the eastern part of the country.

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