January 1, 2014
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has claimed one more life in the Sultanate.
According
to the Ministry of Health, the Sultanate's second MERS coronavirus
patient died of lung failure in a hospital last Monday.
"A
59-year-old MERS coronavirus patient, who was under treatment, died on
December 30. He had lung failure and pneumonia," the Ministry of Health
said, while adding that the ministry is prepared to deal with these
situations.
The Sultanate's first MERS
coronavirus patient died in the hospital on November 10. The first
MERS-CoV victim, who was admitted to the hospital in Nizwa in October,
was suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure, among other
complaints.
Last week, the Saudi health
authorities announced a new casualty of MERS-CoV, bringing to 57 the
number of people killed by the coronavirus in the country with the most
fatalities.
The MERS-CoV, which can cause
coughing, fever and pneumonia, emerged in Saudi Arabia last year and its
occurance has been reported in Qatar, France, Germany, Italy, Tunisia
and Britain.
MERS-CoV is considered a deadlier
but less-transmissible cousin of the SARS virus that erupted in Asia in
2003 and infected 8,273 people, nine per cent of whom died.
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