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MERS sees 1st death in Oman, 53 in Saudi
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Saudi Arabia announced another fatality from the MERS virus yesterday, taking its toll to 53, as neighboring Oman recorded its first death from the respiratory disease.
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) had cost 64 lives worldwide by November 4, according to the World Health Organization.
In the Gulf region, 53 MERS deaths have been recorded in Saudi, the country most affected by the disease, and two in Qatar, as well as the fatality announced yesterday by Muscat.
The 68-year-old Omani was “suffering from several chronic illnesses including diabetes, blood pressure, and heart failure,” the sultanate’s health ministry said in a statement.
“The main cause of death was failure in lung function,” it said.
Health authorities had announced the infection on October 30 in what was the country’s only MERS case reported so far.
The man was treated in Nazwa, 150 kilometers west of the capital.
The ministry said tests carried out on everyone who had been in contact with the victim came in negative.
Health authorities in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf nation where the virus first appeared in September 2012, yesterday announced a new death from MERS.
Experts are struggling to understand the disease, for which there is no vaccine.
It is seen as a deadlier but less-transmissible cousin of the SARS virus in Asia in 2003 and infected 8,273 people, 9 percent of whom died.
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