Qatar Announces new #MERS infection

[This is written in English, and states the 29(M) has been in contact with another patient infected with MERS. We don't know exactly who that is...]

August 27, 2013
Health authorities in Qatar announced the second confirmed case in a week of the MERS coronavirus in the Gulf state, with a 29-year-old man infected and in intensive care. DOHA: Health authorities in Qatar announced the second confirmed case in a week of the MERS coronavirus in the Gulf state, with a 29-year-old man infected and in intensive care.

The Qatari patient suffers from asthma and has been in contact with another patient infected with MERS. He is "in a critical condition and is under intensive care", the Supreme Health Council said in a statement late Monday. On August 20, the authorities announced the first infection in the Gulf state of a 59-year-old Qatari.

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