MERS Death Toll Rises

Three more people have died from MERS, the Middle Eastern respiratory virus that has now claimed the lives of 30 people.

The latest deaths occurred in Saudi Arabia, the country hardest hit in the outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Symptom Coronavirus that health officials have dubbed “a threat to the entire world.”

Saudi officials said that the age of the three most recent victims ranged from 24 to 60, but that all suffered from a chronic health condition that made them especially susceptible to the virus.

So far, at least 50 people are known to have been sickened by the virus, and cases have been reported in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Germany, the United Kingdom and France.

(Full story here). Small pox originated from the same region, and was spread by Islamic invaders across North Africa and thence to the rest of the world. I guess in a real sense, you can say that Islam killed off the Native Americans.