A Saudi university professor has disclosed that the genetic series of the corona virus of a patient who was not positively responding to treatment at a Saudi hospital, and later died of the disease, proved that camels are the main source of spreading the virus to safe people. In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Professor Tareq Ahmed Madani, Head Department of the Faculty of Medicine at Jeddah-based King Abdulaziz University, said continuous diagnosis and research conducted on the genetic series of a 22-year-old patient at King Abdulaziz Hospital in Jeddah since he was hospitalized in November 2013 revealed that it was related to the genes of one of the nine camels owned by the patient, who spent 18 days in hospital before passing away. The professor said the outcome, the first of its kind on the disease in the world, will soon be published in an internationally-renowned specialist medical magazine. He said the university research team found that the transfer of the disease from camels was conforming at a rate of 111 percent with the isolated virus taken from the camel. It was also discovered that unit-virus bodies were acting in all the nine-camel flock, he said, adding that it was also apparent that those bodies emerged in the camels even before the patient contracted the corona virus, a cause of MERS. Giving the symptoms and signs of the disease, Dr. Madani said they are an increase of temperature, severe cough, dyspnea, and low white blood cells. However, the doctor confirmed that most of cases discovered outside Saudi Arabia were transferred directly from human to human without infected camels as intermediaries.
