Turkey - Media reports: possible coronavirus MERS case hospitalized in Van

[Gert van der Hoek]

machinetranslation:

Antalya worker as employees on leave and 10 days before the unnamed 42-year-old patient came to the hometown of Van, cough and high fever brought on by the close of the evening because today Yuzuncuyıl University Hospital.

Doctor on suspicion of the MERS virus began to work immediately quarantined.
Unnamed patient getting a private room, the masks were distributed to other patients and to staff in the emergency department.

[Gert van der Hoek]

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December 25, 2015, Friday

One hospitalized in Van on MERS suspicion, emergency ward quarantined

The emergency ward of a state hospital in eastern province of Van was quarantined after a person appeared at the hospital with symptoms resembling those of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus.

The 42-year-old man, whose identity has not been revealed, was taken to Van Y?z?nc? Yıl University Hospital on Friday with symptoms of coughing and high fever. The emergency ward of the hospital was quarantined after the man, who reportedly works as a worker in Antalya and recently came to Van, was suspected of carrying MERS virus.

The MERS virus, which causes coughing, fever and can lead to fatal pneumonia and kidney failure, has been reported mainly in Saudi Arabia and South Korea, but has also been imported in travellers to at least 25 countries worldwide. It kills about 38 percent of those it infects.

The disease is known to have originated from camels and aside from travel-related dispersion, all MERS cases have been confined to the Arabian Peninsula, Lebanon, Jordan and Iran.

The first and single MERS-related death was reported in Turkey in October of last year.