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The World Health Organization has released an update on the MERS case detected in Jordan earlier this week (see Saudi Hospitalized With MERS In Jordan). Although he had been hospitalized in the northern city of prior to his diagnosis in Jordan, he had also had recent travel history to Jeddah and Mecca.
Global Alert and Response (GAR)
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update
Disease Outbreak News
24 April 2014 - On 22 April 2014, the Ministry of Health of Jordan reported an additional laboratory-confirmed case of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
The patient is a 25 year-old man from Al Grayat City, Saudi Arabia. He became ill on 9 April, was admitted to a hospital in Saudi Arabia on 10 April and discharged from the hospital on 15 April, against medical advice. As his condition did not improve, he sought medical care at another hospital in Zarka City, Jordan on 19 April, where he was tested positive for MERS-CoV. The patient has underlying medical conditions and has a history of travel to Abha Mecca and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 3 to 8 April. He has history of contact with camels and is also reported to have consumed camel milk.
Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 254 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including 93 deaths.
