Korean man back in care with MERS
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A SOUTH Korean man believed cured of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has been re-diagnosed with the deadly virus, health officials said yesterday.
The diagnosis deals a blow to Seoul鈥檚 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.
World Health Organization standards call for a four-week waiting period after the last MERS patient fully recovers before an outbreak can be said definitively to be over.
MERS is believed to have originated in camels in the Middle East. Its symptoms include fever, coughing and shortness of breath.
The 35-year-old man was initially diagnosed in May, and released from hospital on October 3 after twice testing negative for the virus. But he was readmitted with a fever on Sunday and diagnosed with MERS on Monday, the health ministry said in a statement.
Officials said doctors detected virus genes in his system, but could not confirm whether it was a fresh case or if the previous infection had returned.
Authorities scrambled to quarantine 61 people who had come into contact with the man, though experts said the chances of the disease having spread were small.
鈥淚t is hard to say that the virus is alive and multiplying in the patient鈥檚 body,鈥 Professor Kim Nam-joong of Seoul National University told reporters.
鈥淭here is little risk of the patient infecting others.鈥
Before Monday鈥檚 diagnosis, no new MERS cases or fatalities had been reported since July.
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