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CDC warns of deadly new virus from Middle East

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    Dr. Manny Alvarez weighs in

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Well there are new warnings -- from the CDC.

Of a deadly new virus originating in the Middle East so far.

The CDC confirms fourteen cases with eight deaths worldwide think of that that's more than 50%.

To date none reported in the United States.

Could this mysterious virus they'll make its way to our -- doctor Manny Alvarez is senior managing editor of Fox News health dot com.

And a member of our medical 1814.

Cases doesn't sound like a huge number and it's not -- -- -- but it's you know but it's more than one and really -- you look at they still don't know how it's spreading it's that corona virus type of almost like the SARS flew.

Type of virus he gives you upper respiratory infection and as you said it seems to have.

At least in the statistics so far have 50% death rate.

And that's the problem you know we wrote about this and fox health news and filed to -- dot com.

-- because the Middle East to me is an area that we have to pay a lot of attention when he comes to brewing a lot of these viruses.

This is a virus that is that has spawned from that area.

And he has not only been found in that area Saudi Arabia and other places but also now has been found in Europe.

So you know if you think about these cases I I said that.

A lot of these outbreaks were anecdotes in some of the medical journals that's not true anymore anybody could be you know in the morning in the Middle East and then by the evening.

Be here in the US and with the civil war in Syria perhaps a little there are so many people we've been on the way to the infrastructure of misplaced -- you have camps you have no running water.

You have no less sanitary conditions in many of those places and you get that you pick your poison you can be even -- give -- having.

At had a terrible time so this is the perfect storm.

If you look at also for instance had the some of the bacteria you know there's an outbreak of antibiotic resistant tuberculosis double that came out of India.

So you know we have to be very careful we have to be.

You know monitor our borders even closer more on Fox News health dot com -- -- many hours thank you.

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