Foreigner tests positive to MERS in Manila

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) travels to Manila, as Philippines Health Officials confirmed first positive case of a 36-year-old man.

Philippine Health Secretary Janette Garin said several people the foreigner had come in close contact with have been traced.

Eight people who had close contact with the patient have been monitored by the DOH.

The patient arrived in the country on June 19, 2015, who went to both Saudi Arabia and Dubai prior to his flight to the Philippines. After South Korea and Thailand, it is now Philippines’s turn to face the MERS again.

MERS was first recognized in people in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and the majority of instances have been in the Middle… If an infected person will arrive in Azerbaijan, then the Scientific Research Institute of Lung Diseases has chambers with all the necessary conditions for the treatment of patients with respiratory failure and other symptoms.

So far, South Korea has reported 186 cases of the potentially deadly disease that has claimed 33 lives since the country reported its first case on May 20.

Meanwhile, the vice mayor of a predominantly Christian city in the country’s Muslim south has expressed concern over its susceptibility to a possible outbreak due to Zamboanga being a “very open” gateway to the Southeast Asian region.

“Experts on infectious diseases and diagnosis have determined that he is no longer a Mers patient”, the ministry said, adding that three relatives who travelled with the man showed no sign of having contracted the virus.

Nearly all patients were infected in hospitals and the World Health Organization (WHO) said it had found no evidence of transmission of the virus within communities outside hospitals.

Garin said they have also put in isolation at the RITM the Filipina companion of the foreigner after she also developed cough.

MERS patients show symptoms similar to those who have flu, such as fever with cough and colds.

REUTERS An employee wearing a mask to prevent contracting Middle East Respiratory Syndrome disinfects the floor at the Incheon global Airport in Incheon.