jeddah saudi ministry and municipality has banned the sale of fresh milk with immediate effect after a mers middle east respiratory syndrome case was reported from abha town in aseer province two nurses one of whom is a malayali afflicted with mers are undergoing treatment at the general hospital health department officials of the municipality started inspecting sales points in north and south districts along the border and shut 15 camel barns in almasrah district and confiscated the milk stocked there municipal officials also sanitized the locality engineer saeed jarulla chief of the ministry of environment said sale of fresh camel milk is banned dr aboobacker kadavathur from the malayalidominated sharafiya district said in 2012 the first victim of mers was a saudi man and the disease was transmitted from his pet camel he said that pasteurized camel milk is available in supermarkets and that it was better to avoid fresh camel milk tnn