# 7296
News this morning trickling out of Tunisia (h/t @HelenBranswell) and already blogged by Crof (see Tunisia: MERS death confirmed (confusingly)) on the first confirmed MERS-CoV case to be reported on the African continent – this time in a traveler who recently visited Qatar and the Gulf States.
Despite news reports of a MOH announcement, a quick check of Tunisia’s Ministry of Health website (in Arabic & French) fails to turn up anything on the front page.
FluTrackers has a thread of French media reports, some of which suggest that two sons of the deceased may have been infected (and have since recovered) as well.
Hopefully we’ll get a clearer explanation - including a timeline showing when this individual traveled to Qatar, and returned, and when he was hospitalized – in the coming hours or days.
