UAE’s Proximity to Saudi Arabia
# 2026
While we expect a DON (Disease Outbreak News) update later today from the World Health Organization on the UAE MERS family cluster first reported on Friday (see Following The UAE MERS Cluster), Gregory Hartl – spokesperson for the WHO, and @WHO have been providing us with an advance look via their respective twitter accounts.
This cluster consists of a 38 year old husband, his 8-months pregnant wife, and 9-year old child. We now learn that the mother has given birth, and the newborn has tested negative for the virus.
A reverse order list of recent activity from Gregory Hartl and the WHO’s twitter account follows:
Updated: 0900 HRS EST - While I was working on this post, @WHO tweeted the following information regarding the deaths of the two MERS Cases in Qatar.
