Pinoy Mers-Cov victim ready for discharge
MANILA -- The first Filipino diagnosed with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome - Corona Virus (Mers-Cov), an overseas Filipino worker (OFW), is now ready to be discharged from quarantine, the Department...
View Article2 S. Korean hospitals shut over MERS fears; 13th person dies
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Authorities in South Korea temporarily closed two hospitals amid persistent fears over the MERS virus outbreak, which has killed 13 people through Friday, though health...
View ArticleAlarm spreads as South Korea reports more MERS cases
By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - Alarm over an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea spread on Thursday with North Korea calling for border checks while hundreds more...
View ArticleLessons from South Korea's Mers outbreak
The outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) in South Korea has become the biggest outside of Saudi Arabia, where the virus was first discovered in 2012. All the cases so far have been...
View ArticleKorea Fears More MERS Virus Infections
Korea became home to the fifth-largest number of patients with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in the world as two more cases of MERS were confirmed on Thursday, bringing the total to seven, and...
View ArticleAs death toll hits 19, World Health Organization says MERS outbreak is slowing
The death toll in the ongoing outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Korea ticked up to 19 on Tuesday as the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the spread of the disease is...
View ArticleS. Korea reports third death from MERS outbreak
South Korea on Thursday reported its third death from an outbreak of the MERS virus that has infected dozens of people, seen hundreds of schools closed and caused thousands to cancel travel plans. An...
View ArticleSouth Koreans squabble about MERS as more cases appear
By Jack Kim and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities squabbled on Friday over their handling of an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), as a fourth person died and...
View ArticleSouth Korean woman in contact with MERS patient dies
(CNN)A South Korean woman who had contact with a patient diagnosed with MERS has died of symptoms that are a hallmark of the dreaded respiratory virus, South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare said...
View ArticleFloridians traveling to South Korea pay heed to MERS outbreak
Floridians traveling to South Korea should be aware of an outbreak of a deadly virus new to humans known as Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome or MERS. Since last month, South Korea has experienced at...
View ArticleS Korea says MERS-infected doctor had mass contact
The South Korean government says a doctor infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has come into contact with more than 1,000 people. The doctor is said to have attended large-scale...
View ArticleMan who overcame MERS dies in Germany of lung infection
BERLIN (AP) — A German hospital says a 65-year-old man who survived the Middle East respiratory syndrome but was left...
View ArticleThailand's only known MERS patient is virus-free
BANGKOK — A 75-year-old Omani man who became Thailand's only known case of the often-deadly MERS virus was declared free of the illness by the Health Ministry on Friday. The ministry said that five...
View ArticleMERS Outbreak Spreads in South Korea
Brian Padden SEOUL— South Korean authorities reported Tuesday that two patients infected with MERS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, have died and the total number of infected with deadly virus...
View ArticleMERS: South Korea confirms fourth death
A couple wears masks as a precaution against the MERS virus as they walk on the Myeongdong, one of the main shopping districts in Seoul. Photo: Ahn Young-joon MERS: What you need to know Alarm spreads...
View ArticleSouth Korea says 11th patient has died of Mers infection as two hospitals...
South Korea today reported its 11th death from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) as it sealed off two hospitals that treated infected patients – but tempered concerns by saying the rate of new...
View ArticleThailand’s only known MERS patient is virus-free
A 75-year-old Omani man who became Thailand’s only known case of the often-deadly MERS virus was declared free of the illness by the Health Ministry on Friday. The Ministry said that five laboratory...
View ArticleMers: Outbreak of virus with no known cure and a mortality rate of 40%...
The schools, several hundred of them, suspended classes. The commuters on Seoul’s crowded trains wore face masks and passenger jets were searched for cases of a disease for which there is no known...
View ArticleSouth Korea says MERS patient dies, 10th fatality in outbreak
A South Korean man with terminal lung cancer who had been infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus died...
View ArticleSouth Korean woman becomes 14th patient to die from Mers as new infections...
South Korea today reported the 14th death from an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), with 12 new cases including that of an ambulance driver who moved a patient infected with the...
View ArticleS. Korea reports fourth death from MERS outbreak
Seoul (AFP) - South Korea Friday reported its fourth death from an outbreak of the MERS virus that has infected dozens of people, seen hundreds of schools closed and caused thousands to cancel travel...
View ArticlePatient with suspected MERS virus admitted to Czech hospital
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Prague hospital admitted a patient who may have contracted the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, a spokesman for the hospital said on Tuesday. The patient had traveled...
View ArticleSouth Korea reports fourth death from MERS outbreak
South Korea Friday reported its fourth death from an outbreak of the MERS virus that has infected dozens of people, seen hundreds of schools closed and caused thousands to cancel travel plans. The...
View ArticleSouth Korea shuts 700 schools as officials retrace how 'patient zero'...
Hundreds more schools closed today in South Korea as officials struggled to ease growing panic over an outbreak of the Mers virus that has infected 35 people, killed two and caused thousands to cancel...
View ArticleGerman Man Dies Of Complications Stemming From MERS
LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - A 65-year-old German man who was infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus earlier this year has died in hospital, the health ministry of the...
View ArticleS.Korea reports 3 more MERS deaths, 3 infections
SEOUL, June 18 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Thursday reported three more deaths from infection with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and three additional cases of contagion. Patients 31, 77...
View ArticleTracing the path of South Korea's MERS 'patient zero'
SEOUL - Eight days after returning from a trip to the Middle East, a 68-year-old South Korean man developed a cough and fever. He visited four health facilities seeking treatment and inadvertently...
View ArticleHow MERS Patient Zero Inadvertently Sparked An Outbreak In South Korea
By Ju-min Park SEOUL, June 3 (Reuters) - Eight days after returning from a trip to the Middle East, a 68-year-old South Korean man developed a cough and fever. He visited four health facilities seeking...
View ArticleEurope on alarm after first MERS death in Germany
BEIJING - The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was confirmed Tuesday to have claimed the first victim in Europe as a 65-year-old German patient died of complications of the virus. The man from...
View ArticleSouth Korean cancer patient is 10th person to die from Mers amid outbreak
A South Korean man with terminal lung cancer who had been infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) died today – the 10th person to die from the virus since the outbreak began last month....
View ArticleMers outbreak in South Korea: Pregnant woman among 122 people infected as...
A pregnant woman who caught Mers in hospital is one of the latest people to catch the virus in a growing outbreak in South Korea. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has so far caused at least 10 deaths...
View ArticleGerman man dies of MERS infection after trip to UAE
A man in Germany has died of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a first such death in the European country. The Health Ministry of the German state of Lower Saxony announced the death of the...
View ArticleFirst MERS death reported in Germany
Berlin, June 16: A 65-year-old Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patient passed away on June 6 at a hospital in the German state of Lower Saxony, hospital...
View ArticleGerman dies of complications from MERS infection
Berlin (AFP) - A 65-year-old German man died this month of complications from a MERS infection contracted during a trip to the Arabian Peninsula in February, a German regional health ministry said...
View ArticleGerman, 65, dies of complications from MERS infection: Ministry
A 65-year-old German man died this month of complications from a MERS infection contracted during a trip to the Arabian Peninsula in February, a German regional health ministry said Tuesday. The man...
View ArticleMan in Germany dies of complications stemming from Mers virus
A 65-year-old man has died in Germany from medical complications after being treated for the Mers-CoV virus that has spread through the Middle East and spilled out to other regions. ...
View ArticleMan dies after being 'cured' of Mers virus in Germany
Victim succumbed to a lung disease after recovering from the infection he is believed to have contracted from a camel in the UAE ...
View ArticleMERS Patient Dies in Germany
A 65-year-old man in Germany who was infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome died of complications of lung disease on June 6, according to the German disease control...
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