The Ministry of Public Health announced last week that another MERS infection had been detected – three cases were reported in December last year. No details were provided by the on the recent case other than the 65yo man had chronic medical conditions. The previous infections were an older woman from Doha who had no history of contact with dromedary camels or recent travel, and two of her relations who were found to be infected (but asymptomatic) following contact tracing and have since recovered. Read more
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