{{Saudi health authorities said on Saturday a young man had died from the MERS coronavirus, bringing the death toll from the respiratory disease in the worst-hit country to 63.}}<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old national, who died in Riyadh, had been suffering from chronic illnesses, the health ministry said.<\/p>\n
Four other people began suffering from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome after coming into contact with infected people, the ministry said. Among them were two women, aged 18 and 22.<\/p>\n
That brought the total number of cases in Saudi Arabia to 156 people since the virus first appeared in September 2012.<\/p>\n
Experts are struggling to understand the disease, for which there is no vaccine.<\/p>\n
A study last month said the virus has been “extraordinarily common” in camels for at least 20 years, and may have been passed directly from the animals to humans.<\/p>\n
MERS is considered a deadlier but less-transmissible cousin of the SARS virus that erupted in Asia in 2003 and infected 8 273 people, 9% of whom died.<\/p>\n
The World Health Organisation said at the end of February that it has been told of 184 cases of MERS infection worldwide, including 80 deaths.<\/p>\n
– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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