# 8468
For several days Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers and I have been discussing vague and unsubstantiated reports (on twitter, and elsewhere) suggesting that there was a MERS case in Yemen, but until this morning they have been only rumors.
Today Reuters, and several other news agencies, are reporting that an aeronautical engineer from Sanaa has been infected with the virus, although very little else has been divulged.
This report from Reuters.
Yemen reports first case of deadly MERS-coronavirus
SANAA Sun Apr 13, 2014 4:35am EDT
(Reuters) - Yemen reported its first case of the deadly MERS coronavirus on Sunday in a further spread of the deadly strain in the Middle East two years after its outbreak in neighboring Saudi Arabia.
"Medical personnel have recorded one case of the coronavirus in Sanaa and the victim is a Yemeni man who works as an aeronautics engineer," the semi-official al-Thawra newspaper quoted Public Health Minister Ahmed al-Ansi as saying.
"The ministry is working in effective cooperation with the World Health Organisation to confront this virus and is in direct and constant communication with all hospitals to receive information on any other suspected cases," Ansi said.
Sanaa is nearly two hundred miles south of the Saudi/Yemen border. Hopefully we’ll get more details on this case, and a possible route of exposure, in the hours or days to come.
