ABU DHABI: Health authorities in the United Arab Emirates have announced that an 82-year-old man has been diagnosed with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus infection, the first case to be recorded in the Gulf state.
The Emirati citizen who contracted the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-like virus suffers from cancer and is being treated in hospital in the capital, Abu Dhabi health authority said in a statement carried by the Emirates News Agency on Thursday (Friday in Manila).
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