Ali Mohamed Zaki, Founder of Corona Virus
Worldmeters data update corona virus that was adapted from Kompas.com, Sunday (09/03/2020) said that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has infected 110 countries around the world and one International Diamond Princess cruise ship anchored in Yokohama, Japan. A total of 110,063 people worldwide have been infected with 3,828 fatalities.
Meanwhile, patients who were declared cured continued to increase. As of 9:25 WIB, Sunday 9 March 2020, at least 62,276 people were declared cured.
From the data above, Italy is the country with the most number of new cases and deaths, namely 1,492 cases increased and 133 people died on Sunday.
With the addition of the list, more than 7,300 people in Italy have been infected and the total died to 366. In addition to Italy, Iran also showed an increase in cases reaching 743 people, bringing the total to 6,566.
There were 49 new fatalities which brought the total number of deaths to 194. Reported by Aljazeera, said, outbreaks of the corona virus in China and South Korea seemed to slow down.
This virus reportedly was first identified in 2019, so called Coronavirus Novel (2019-nCov). However, new facts reveal that this virus had previously been discovered approximately six years ago.
The Guardian reported that in September 2012 a doctor in one hospital in Saudi Arabia had been fired for reporting a deadly new type of corona virus, which was thought to be the same as a Coronavirus novel.
He is Ali Mohamed Zaki who is a virus expert who has worked at Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The story begins with a doctor who is worried about a patient suffering from acute pneumonia. Zaki finally tried to identify the patient's disease.
The 60-year-old patient has been hospitalized for a severe pneumonia virus and the doctor wants Zaki to identify the virus. Zaki obtained phlegm from the patient and started working. He runs the usual lab tests. One by one they were tested again and the tests showed negative.
Confused by the results, Zaki sent samples to the leading virology laboratory at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. While waiting for the Dutch team to check the virus, Zaki tried one more test.
This time he got positive results. That shows an infectious agent belonging to a family of pathogens called Coronavirus or Corona Virus. The common cold is caused by Coronavirus. Likewise, SARS infection is far more deadly.
Zaki quickly sent an email to the Dutch lab to sound the alarm. Their test confirmed his fear, but went further; This is a Corona virus that has never been seen before.
To remind other scientists, Zaki posted a note about ProMED, an internet reporting system designed to quickly share details of infectious diseases and epidemics with researchers and public health agencies.
The move was very detrimental. A week later, Zaki returned to his native land in Egypt, his contract at the hospital in Saudi Arabia was terminated, which according to him, his dismissal was under pressure from the Saudi Ministry of Health.
"They don't like this to appear on proMED. They forced the hospital to terminate my contract, "Zaki told The Guardian from Cairo.
"I was forced to leave my job because of this, but that is my job. This is a serious virus. "
How serious the problem was at that time. While Zaki has worked to identify the virus, where the patient's health has declined.
The pneumonia worsened; his breathing is getting shorter. The kidneys and other organs begin to falter and fail. Apart from all the drugs and analyzed, and mechanical ventilation to help him breathe, the man died 11 days after he arrived at the hospital.
The case of the Jeddah virus at that time was more interesting than frightening. Although much is made of viruses related to the one that causes SARS, which spread to more than 30 countries and killed 800 people in 2003, the two are genetically very different.
SARS is scary because it spreads easily and kills frequently. It spread in the family, and shook the hospital. Patients in Jeddah are only one case.
That's how it looks. Since the virus was revealed in September 2012, the number of cases has increased to 15. More than half have died. The latest death was a 39-year-old man, reported by Saudi Arabia at a week in 2012.
The numbers are not yet alarming, but the emergence of new stable cases, and the fact that the infection has spread from person to person, has triggered intensive efforts to understand the virus, and secretly prepare for the worst.
We do not know whether this virus has the ability to trigger a full epidemic. We're really in the dark about that, "said Ron Fouchier, a molecular virologist at Erasmus Medical Center whose lab identified the virus Zaki found.
"We thought what we saw was only the tip of the iceberg, but we didn't know how big the iceberg was, or where it was," he said.
Opposite the Houses of Parliament on the banks of the River Thames is St Thomas's Hospital, London. In September 2012, doctors in the intensive care unit struggled to diagnose a 49-year-old man from Doha, Qatar, who arrived by air ambulance with a serious respiratory infection.
He was treated with strict isolation. The man has a virus, that's obvious, but the nature of the infection is a mystery. He visited Saudi Arabia in 2013.
Confused by this case, the doctor at the hospital notified the Imported Fever Service's Health Protection Agency (HPA), which began its own investigation. Scientists run tests on Qatari men to exclude common infections.
They then got lucky. They successfully completed the first round of tests, two scientists on the HPA team entered ProMED. There on the screen was a note published earlier that day from a Professor Zaki at a hospital in Saudi Arabia.
He announced the discovery of a new and deadly Coronavirus. The patient has symptoms that are almost identical to Qatari men.
The next day, the HPA ran a new test. The results are not pleasant. Tests for specific and well-known Coronavirus appear negative. But the general test for the Coronavirus family is positive. That strongly suggests they deal with the same bug that killed men in Jeddah.
HPA investigations to replace gears. At the weekend, they had examined the genetic makeup of the virus and compared it to the results Fouchier's team had achieved with the Saudi virus. The virus is 99.5 percent identical. The HPA immediately notified the World Health Organization, which issued a global warning.
"Suddenly this has become much more interesting," said Tony Mounts, head of pandemic monitoring and supervision at the World Health Organization.
"We now have two cases that occur several months apart, from a virus in the same family as SARS, and both cases have bad pneumonia," he said.
"The severity of infection is only one concern. Only a few weeks later, millions of pilgrims will arrive in Mecca for the pilgrimage. If the virus hides in the area, this is the perfect opportunity to spread, "he explained.
"You have three million people coming from all over the world who have the potential to bring new pathogens home with them," Mounts said. "It needs some urgency."
Since being sacked, Khalid has left his wife, Azima, and twin boys, who will be three years old that year.
"They kept asking," Where is father? When will father come home? ', But they are too young to know what happened, "Azima told the Guardian.
Zaki's new virus may be hiding in farm animals in Saudi Arabia and possibly from Jordan and Qatar, but those countries are also major importers of animals.
"I can easily imagine a situation where this virus is hiding in bats in Sudan or Pakistan, their domestic livestock are infected, and transported to these countries," Mounts said.
Meanwhile, patients who were declared cured continued to increase. As of 9:25 WIB, Sunday 9 March 2020, at least 62,276 people were declared cured.
From the data above, Italy is the country with the most number of new cases and deaths, namely 1,492 cases increased and 133 people died on Sunday.
With the addition of the list, more than 7,300 people in Italy have been infected and the total died to 366. In addition to Italy, Iran also showed an increase in cases reaching 743 people, bringing the total to 6,566.
There were 49 new fatalities which brought the total number of deaths to 194. Reported by Aljazeera, said, outbreaks of the corona virus in China and South Korea seemed to slow down.
This virus reportedly was first identified in 2019, so called Coronavirus Novel (2019-nCov). However, new facts reveal that this virus had previously been discovered approximately six years ago.
The Guardian reported that in September 2012 a doctor in one hospital in Saudi Arabia had been fired for reporting a deadly new type of corona virus, which was thought to be the same as a Coronavirus novel.
He is Ali Mohamed Zaki who is a virus expert who has worked at Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The story begins with a doctor who is worried about a patient suffering from acute pneumonia. Zaki finally tried to identify the patient's disease.
The 60-year-old patient has been hospitalized for a severe pneumonia virus and the doctor wants Zaki to identify the virus. Zaki obtained phlegm from the patient and started working. He runs the usual lab tests. One by one they were tested again and the tests showed negative.
Confused by the results, Zaki sent samples to the leading virology laboratory at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. While waiting for the Dutch team to check the virus, Zaki tried one more test.
This time he got positive results. That shows an infectious agent belonging to a family of pathogens called Coronavirus or Corona Virus. The common cold is caused by Coronavirus. Likewise, SARS infection is far more deadly.
Zaki quickly sent an email to the Dutch lab to sound the alarm. Their test confirmed his fear, but went further; This is a Corona virus that has never been seen before.
To remind other scientists, Zaki posted a note about ProMED, an internet reporting system designed to quickly share details of infectious diseases and epidemics with researchers and public health agencies.
The move was very detrimental. A week later, Zaki returned to his native land in Egypt, his contract at the hospital in Saudi Arabia was terminated, which according to him, his dismissal was under pressure from the Saudi Ministry of Health.
"They don't like this to appear on proMED. They forced the hospital to terminate my contract, "Zaki told The Guardian from Cairo.
"I was forced to leave my job because of this, but that is my job. This is a serious virus. "
How serious the problem was at that time. While Zaki has worked to identify the virus, where the patient's health has declined.
The pneumonia worsened; his breathing is getting shorter. The kidneys and other organs begin to falter and fail. Apart from all the drugs and analyzed, and mechanical ventilation to help him breathe, the man died 11 days after he arrived at the hospital.
The case of the Jeddah virus at that time was more interesting than frightening. Although much is made of viruses related to the one that causes SARS, which spread to more than 30 countries and killed 800 people in 2003, the two are genetically very different.
SARS is scary because it spreads easily and kills frequently. It spread in the family, and shook the hospital. Patients in Jeddah are only one case.
That's how it looks. Since the virus was revealed in September 2012, the number of cases has increased to 15. More than half have died. The latest death was a 39-year-old man, reported by Saudi Arabia at a week in 2012.
The numbers are not yet alarming, but the emergence of new stable cases, and the fact that the infection has spread from person to person, has triggered intensive efforts to understand the virus, and secretly prepare for the worst.
We do not know whether this virus has the ability to trigger a full epidemic. We're really in the dark about that, "said Ron Fouchier, a molecular virologist at Erasmus Medical Center whose lab identified the virus Zaki found.
"We thought what we saw was only the tip of the iceberg, but we didn't know how big the iceberg was, or where it was," he said.
Opposite the Houses of Parliament on the banks of the River Thames is St Thomas's Hospital, London. In September 2012, doctors in the intensive care unit struggled to diagnose a 49-year-old man from Doha, Qatar, who arrived by air ambulance with a serious respiratory infection.
He was treated with strict isolation. The man has a virus, that's obvious, but the nature of the infection is a mystery. He visited Saudi Arabia in 2013.
Confused by this case, the doctor at the hospital notified the Imported Fever Service's Health Protection Agency (HPA), which began its own investigation. Scientists run tests on Qatari men to exclude common infections.
They then got lucky. They successfully completed the first round of tests, two scientists on the HPA team entered ProMED. There on the screen was a note published earlier that day from a Professor Zaki at a hospital in Saudi Arabia.
He announced the discovery of a new and deadly Coronavirus. The patient has symptoms that are almost identical to Qatari men.
The next day, the HPA ran a new test. The results are not pleasant. Tests for specific and well-known Coronavirus appear negative. But the general test for the Coronavirus family is positive. That strongly suggests they deal with the same bug that killed men in Jeddah.
HPA investigations to replace gears. At the weekend, they had examined the genetic makeup of the virus and compared it to the results Fouchier's team had achieved with the Saudi virus. The virus is 99.5 percent identical. The HPA immediately notified the World Health Organization, which issued a global warning.
"Suddenly this has become much more interesting," said Tony Mounts, head of pandemic monitoring and supervision at the World Health Organization.
"We now have two cases that occur several months apart, from a virus in the same family as SARS, and both cases have bad pneumonia," he said.
"The severity of infection is only one concern. Only a few weeks later, millions of pilgrims will arrive in Mecca for the pilgrimage. If the virus hides in the area, this is the perfect opportunity to spread, "he explained.
"You have three million people coming from all over the world who have the potential to bring new pathogens home with them," Mounts said. "It needs some urgency."
Since being sacked, Khalid has left his wife, Azima, and twin boys, who will be three years old that year.
"They kept asking," Where is father? When will father come home? ', But they are too young to know what happened, "Azima told the Guardian.
Zaki's new virus may be hiding in farm animals in Saudi Arabia and possibly from Jordan and Qatar, but those countries are also major importers of animals.
"I can easily imagine a situation where this virus is hiding in bats in Sudan or Pakistan, their domestic livestock are infected, and transported to these countries," Mounts said.
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