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South Korean man dies of complications from deadly Mers virus

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South Korean man dies of complications from deadly Mers virus – more than 3 months after country’s last fatality


PUBLISHED : Sunday, 25 October, 2015, 6:20pm
UPDATED : Sunday, 25 October, 2015, 6:20pm

Agence France-Presse in Seoul

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In late July, the South Korean government declared that the Mers outbreak in the country had effectively ended as there was no longer anyone subject to quarantine. Photo: AFP

A South Korean man died of complications from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) Sunday, in the first death linked to the virus in the country for more than three months.

The 66-year-old man was diagnosed in June after contracting the virus at the Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul - one of the major epicentres of the disease that swept the country between May and July, Seoul’s health ministry said.

He later underwent a lung transplant operation, but his condition did not stabilise even after testing negative for Mers.

Seoul had declared the outbreak effectively over at the end of July, but earlier this month a 35-year-old man believed to have been cured of the virus was rediagnosed.]

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During the outbreak, about 16,000 people were quarantined either at home or at medical facilities. Photo: AFP

The diagnosis dealt a blow to South Korea’s hopes of being declared free of the disease that has infected 186 people in the country, killing 36 of them, since its outbreak in May.

The patient is currently under treatment along with four others who were officially cured from the virus but are suffering from various health setbacks caused by the disease.

The virus is considered a deadlier but less infectious cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), which killed hundreds of people when it appeared in Asia in 2003.

The outbreak took a heavy toll on Asia’s fourth-largest economy, stifling consumer spending and devastating the tourist sector.



 
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