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Last MERS patient rediagnosed with disease
“Two virus tests came out positive and 61 people, including his family, medical staff and ambulance driver, who came into contact with the patient, have been placed under quarantine, while another 68 people are being monitored”, a KCDC official said.
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The patient, who was recuperating at home after being discharged, showed symptoms of MERS such as high fever and coughing, prompting him to be readmitted into Seoul National University hospital on October 12.
The 80th infectee, 35, entered hospital again as he was confirmed positive with the MERS corona virus, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
The diagnosis deals a blow to Seoul’s hopes of being declared free of a disease that has infected 186 people in South Korea, killing 36 of them, since its outbreak in May. “Since it is related to respiratory disease, the changing weather could trigger problems among patients suffering from chronic ailments”, said one of the doctors.
“There is little risk of the patient infecting others”, he added.
Thirty three percent of a total of 1,252 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus cases reported over the past four years in Saudi Arabia took place within hospitals, a media report said on Saturday.
A patient who was thought to have completely recovered from the MERS outbreak was recently re-diagnosed with the virus.
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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.