SARS-Like Virus Discovered in Egypt

The patient, who is now in a hospital in the capital city, Cairo, had arrived recently in the country from Saudi Arabia, RT reported.
92 people have died of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia, the country’s Health Ministry said on its website Friday.
The virus, which can cause coughing, fever and pneumonia has a higher than 40 percent death rate among confirmed cases.
5 more people died as Saudi Arabia says that Mers virus already has 300 cases
The new cases had been reported in the capital Riyadh, Jeddah and Mecca as stated by the health ministry. This was in the past 24 hours. The authorities said that there were also five more registered deaths that were also due to the virus.
Considering that Saudi Arabia will host the pilgrims from around the globe in July during the Ramadan, the rapid increase of the case is a critical concern. There will also be millions of worshipper in early October that will make the annual Haj.
According to the ministry’s website, a total of 92 people already died because of MERS in Saudi Arabia.
The Kingdom witnessed the increased in rate of the infection in the recent weeks. There were many new cases found in Jeddah. The greater portion of the infected people is health care professionals.
Severe snow storm hits Sierra, USA

Severe Blizzards Strikes Russia

Russia’s Urals region has been hit with freak winter weather, with severe snowstorms causing massive traffic jams, flight delays, power blackouts and school closures.
Those would later be used in “before and after” collages with “goodbye summer” hashtags.





Ahyi Volcano Alert Level Raised To Yellow, USA

Sun Unleashes Major Solar Flare

The sun erupted with a massive solar flare late Thursday (April 24), triggering a temporary communications blackout on some parts of Earth.
The powerful flare peaked at 8:27 p.m. EDT Thursday (0027 April 25 GMT), and ranked as an X1.3-class solar storm, one of the strongest types of flares the sun can experience, according to a report from the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center. NASA’s sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory captured video of the intense solar flare in several difference wavelengths.
MAGNITUDE 5.0 KURIL ISLANDS
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000q0gk#summary
Subject To Change
Depth: 130 km
Distances: 322km (200mi) SW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia
615km (382mi) SW of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
635km (395mi) SW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
637km (396mi) SW of Yelizovo, Russia
1803km (1120mi) NE of Tokyo, Japan

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