# 7966
A hat tip to Sharon Sanders on FluTrackers for picking up a pair of media reports that indicate at least one suspected MERS case is hospitalized in Kuwait, with the added suspicion that his doctor may be infected as well. You can follow these, and future reports on this thread.
The translation of first report Sharon posted is severely syntax challenged, but the second one is clearer. Aden is located to the immediate south of Kuwait City.
machine translation
Alert in the 'force' after suspected transmission of the infection to the doctor
The first injury 'Corona' in Kuwait
Sources healthy familiar with «opinion» About the appearance of the first cases of HIV «Corona» of a citizen lying in intensive care in a hospital in Adan, described the doctors his condition as «dangerous».Sources healthy familiar with «opinion» About the appearance of the first cases of HIV «Corona» of a citizen lying in intensive care in a hospital in Adan, described the doctors his condition as «dangerous».
Sources said he also suspected of infecting the physician supervising the patient, where she developed symptoms of high temperature.
The sources pointed out that Doctors Hospital of communicable diseases were not able to transfer the patient to the hospital due to his poor health, referring to the lifting of the state of emergency in the «force» in anticipation of receiving infected cases, and joins Kuwait to the rest of the Gulf states, which appeared «Corona» except Bahrain.
http://www.alraimedia.com/Alrai/Arti...&date=13112013
I’ve checked KUNA, the English Language Kuwait Press Agency, but so far have not found any mentions of this case.