Patient Infected with the Mers Virus Has Died - South Korea’s Health Ministry said

South Korea’s health ministry said on Tuesday a patient infected with the Middle EastRespiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus has died, becoming the seventh fatality in an outbreak that began in May. The ministry said there were eight new cases of MERS, bringing the total to 95 but falling from 23 daily new cases reported on Monday. South Korean President Park Geun-hye said the progress of MERS, which has been spreading in South Korea since last month when a businessman brought it home from a Middle East trip, had to be halted, a day after authorities began using mobile phones to trace people who violate quarantine. Most of the disease’s approximately 445 fatalities have been in the Middle East but memories are fresh in Asia of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which emerged in 2002-2003 and killed about 800 people worldwide. MERS is caused by a coronavirus from the same family as the one that caused SARS. The World HealthOrganisation (WHO) has not recommended travel restrictions and its director-general, Margaret Chan, said she believed South Korea would be able to control the spread. But alarm is growing and about 25,000 people cancelled trips to South Korea between Jun 5 and Jun 7, the Korean Tourism Organisation said.

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