Thai health authorities said on January 26 that they had placed 33 people in quarantine after an Omani national seeking medical help in the country tested positive for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Bangkok (VNA) - Thai health authorities said on January 26 that they had placed 33 people in quarantine after an Omani national seeking medical help﷽ in the country tested positive for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
They were among at least 40 people who came into contact with the man. Those deemed to be at high risk included 22 passengers on his flight, two taxi drivers, four hotel staff, 11 hospital staff and one relative.
The man, 71, arrived in Thailand on January 22 with a fever that doctors in Oman could not treat, Thai officials said.
Last year, an Omani man also tested positive for MERS, leading to the quarantine of more than 170 people in Thailand. He was successfully treated and went home.
The MERS virus first appeared in 2012 in Saudi Arabia. It is considered a deadlier but less infectious cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed hundreds of people when it first appeared in Asia in 2003.
It has so far appeared in 25 countries worldwide, including several Middle East countries, France, Germany, Italy, the Republic of Korea, Tunisia and the UK. No vaccine or treatment is currently available.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 36 percent of people known to have contracted MERS died as a result.-VNA
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A Thai woman suspected of having contracted Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus has been hospitalised after returning from her pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
A Thai resident who just returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Mecca city, Saudi Arabia, is suspected of catching the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
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Thailand’s Public Health Ministry announced on January 24 the second confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) detected in a 71-year-old man from Oman.
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