UAE reports first case of Saudi-linked coronavirus

Posted on July 12, 2013 • Filed under: Middle East, Tourists ill, Travel Health

Alarabiya.net reports that health authorities in the UAE have announced that an 82-year-old man has been diagnosed with the MERS coronavirus infection, the first case to be recorded in the Gulf state. The Emirati citizen who contracted the SARS-like virus suffers from cancer and is being treated in hospital in the capital, Abu Dhabi health authority said in a statement carried by WAM state news agency late Thursday. The authority said that this was the first case to be diagnosed in the United Arab Emirates. Read article

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