RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has reported five new deaths from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS) respiratory virus, bringing the death toll in the world’s worst-hit country to 168.

Meanwhile, an Illinois man has contracted the MERS respiratory virus after coming into contact with the first case of the mysterious Middle East pathogen in the United States, to become the third infected person in the US.

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