SAUDIS WARNING ABOUT MERS RISK FROM CAMELS…….

Will the love affair continue?

Saudi Arabia warns of MERS risk from camels as cases rise

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. There is no vaccine or anti-viral treatment against it.

Around a third of the 483 diagnosed with MERS in Saudi Arabia have died.

Saudi Arabia is still the focal point of the outbreak, although cases have been reported in other Middle Eastern countries, in Europe and in the United States, which had its first confirmed case last month.

The link between human cases and camels – which have a special place in Saudi society – is the subject of extensive study among scientists abroad. But it has been relatively absent from much of the official domestic debate.

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By wtd May 13, 2014

Officials: 2nd US case of MERS reported

First MERS case was in Indiana, a male health care worker who was living and working in Saudi Arabia

The second appeared in Orlando, Florida – a Saudi national
By wtd May 13, 2014

Note how the local press is reporting the Orlando case:

Second US MERS Case Found in Orlando

May 12th, 2014 | WMFE, Orlando- Florida health officials say there’s no broad risk from a MERS case discovered in Orlando. It’s the second confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome- or MERS co-V- in the United states.
A 44 year old man is recovering at Dr. P. Phillips hospital from the respiratory illness.
The patient, who is a Saudi Arabian healthcare worker, flew into Orlando May 1st to visit family.
He was admitted to hospital May 9th with a fever, chills and a slight cough
State surgeon general John Armstrong says the man didn’t visit any theme parks, and there’s no broad risk to the public– but the patient has been placed in isolation.

“The Florida Department of Health has been working very closely with this hospital and is particularly mindful of healthcare workers who might have been exposed and we’re following standard infection protocols,” says Armstrong.

Local health department officials say the man is doing well and expected to recover.
Out of 538 worldwide cases of MERS Co V, 145 people have died.
Most of the cases are in Saudi Arabia, and about one fifth are health care workers.

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CDC mindful . . . 20% of MERS deaths are health care workers.
By wtd May 13, 2014

MERS FAQ’s

ORLANDO, Fla. (KRMG) — SARS scared the world in 2003 when 8,000 people were infected with the bug and 800 died.
That’s a 10% fatality rate.
Fast forward to 2013 and the fear is back and bigger but this time with the MERS virus.
So far there have only been 64 cases of MERS worldwide but 38 people have died, a fatality rate of 59%.
The virus affects the respiratory system and starts much like SARS with a mild cough and fever but quickly progressing to pneumonia.
MERS is currently mostly confined to the Middle East and infections are limited but doctors worry that there are many cases not yet identified.
One big problem with MERS is how fast it transfers from human to human and how it has quickly moved from hospital to hospital.

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The above linked article posts a closing statement which begs the question(s),

1) “Why aren’t medical workers involved in MERS cases quarantined for a sufficient period after contact with MERS related enviornments?”

2) It takes a certain degree of incompetence to allow anyone confirmed to have been in contact with MERS related environments to travel – local, national, continental, transcontinental modes of public transport.

INSANITY! or worse, intentional allowing MERS to spread infection globally.
By wtd May 13, 2014

Health officials now must track down fellow travelers who were around the newest case, and this time it will be more challenging: There were more flights involved.
He traveled on May 1 on flights
from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,
first to London,
then to Boston,
then to Atlanta,
and finally to Orlando.
He went to a hospital on May 8 and was placed in isolation. . . As early as the first flight, the latest case was suffering fever, chills and a slight cough

//www.whig.com/story/25492482/officials-2nd-us-case-of-mers-being-reported
By wtd May 13, 2014

Man who died on flight suffered heart attack
KUALA LUMPUR: The 64-year-old Indonesian man who died during an AirAsia X flight from Jeddah to Kuala Lumpur had suffered a heart attack, the Health Ministry said.

The ministry’s director-general, Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the man had not died because of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

“Based on information gathered, the man experienced fever, cough, difficulty in breathing and loss of appetite in Mecca for a few days.

“The man had sought treatment at a clinic there,” Dr Noor Hisham said in a statement here yesterday.

He said during the flight from Jeddah, the man experienced difficulty in breathing and died.

His body was sent to the Serdang Hospital for a post-mortem.

“Since the man was returning from performing the umrah (in Mecca), samples were taken to screen for MERS-CoV and they returned negative,” added Dr Noor Hisham

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There’s No Common Cultural Legacy For The Alt-Right

Still, is there something to it? Is there a common heritage that will cover El Greco and Hume and Dostoyevsky? Is there one that can include the Jacobites and the Jacobins? There is, but it is not racial, and white supremacists reject it because it rejects them. The unifying heritage of Europe is religious and philosophical. It is Jerusalem and Athens, in one famous formulation. Christian religion and Greek philosophy, filtered through Roman law and culture, are the foundation of European culture. The tensions, agreements, developments and settlements between these have shaped the Western world, and these roots of Western civilization are not congenial to white supremacy.

Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history.

Greek philosophy is likewise ill-suited to serve as a basis for white identity. It is either too universal (addressing the human condition in general) or too local—none of us live as citizens of an ancient Greek polis. Later philosophical developments in Europe, such as the philosophies of the Enlightenment, likewise tend to be too universal for white supremacists seeking a tribal identity. As for the scientific revolution that developed within Western culture (albeit with much borrowed from outside Europe), math doesn’t care what color someone is.

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War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. The only way to defend Western civilisation is to reaffirm and restore its Biblical foundations. My argument is a development of ideas I first explored in my 2012 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power.

We are living in an era which extols reason, science and human rights. These are said to be essential for progress, a civilised society and the betterment of humanity. Religion is said to be their antithesis, the source instead of superstitious mumbo-jumbo, oppression and backward-thinking.

Some of this hostility is being driven by the perceived threat from Islamic terrorism and the Islamisation of Western culture. However, this animus against religion has far deeper roots and can be traced back to what is considered the birthplace of Western reason, the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Actually, it goes back specifically to the French Enlightenment. In England and Scotland, the Enlightenment developed reason and political liberty within the framework of Biblical belief. In France, by contrast, anti-clericalism morphed into fundamental hostility to Christianity and to religion itself.

“Ecrasez l’infame,” said Voltaire (crush infamy) — the infamy to which he referred being not just the Church but Christianity, which he wanted to replace with the religion of reason, virtue and liberty, “drawn from the bosom of nature”.

Perfecting society

But this Enlightenment did not remove religion so much as pervert it. It took millenarian fantasies, the idea that the perfection of the world was at hand, and it secularised them. Instead of God producing heaven on earth, it would be mankind which would bring that about. Reason would create the perfect society and “progress” was the process by which utopia would be attained.

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“I think that we should correct the vocabulary that we use, and call a spade a spade. It is all about Jihad, the Islamic effort to spread Islam globally”:

Terrorist attack – should be called Military Jihad.

Incitement – Media Jihad.

Al-Jazeera – Media Jihad Channel.

Imposing Sharia law – Judicial Jihad or Legislative Jihad.

Boycotting Israel (BDS) – Economic Jihad.

Emigration to EU and US – Emigration Jihad / Hijra Jihad.

Building mosques, Islamic education institutions – Cultural Jihad.

Halal food – Dietary Jihad.

Hijab or Niqab – Clothing Jihad.

Activity of MSA – Academic Jihad.

Activity of CAIR – Political Jihad / Public Jihad.

Collecting money for Islamic “charities” – Financial Jihad.

Political correctness – Submission to Jihad.

J Street, Peace Now, JVP and their likes – Jewish Useful Idiots who Serve Jihad.

Iran deal – Western Support for Nuclear Jihad.