The fatality rate for those infected with that strain is about 65%, Hartl said.
But Mr. Hartl said the new disease was unlikely to be SARS itself, because the symptoms differ.
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Comparing the two diseases, which are from different virus families, is difficult, said World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl.
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Saudi health authorities are looking for more potential cases and have queried intensive care units in their country, Mr. Hartl said.
Mr. Hartl said the Saudi government is reporting laboratory-confirmed cases of the coronavirus to the WHO, in compliance with international health regulations.
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"There is way too little information, " WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said.
Hartl said that in Europe, several drug firms are set to submit clinical trial data in the next few weeks, with GlaxoSmithKline likely to be among the first.
At a press briefing last week, World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl brought up the specter of the 1918 pandemic, which killed more than half a million people in the United States.
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The outbreak is only about 10 days old, and even if the illness is declining, it could return, said Gregory Hartl, the WHO spokesman for epidemic and pandemic diseases, at a briefing Sunday.
"I think the world is infinitely better prepared than it was 90 years ago, " said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl, referring to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed as many as 20 million people.
"I ... would like to remind people that in 1918 the Spanish flu showed a surge in the spring, and then disappeared in the summer months, only to return in the autumn of 1918 with a vengeance, " Hartl said.
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