Egypt - Woman, 50s, suspected coronavirus MERS death in Menoufia - MoH not confirmed yet

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Source: http://www.aa.com.tr/en/health/323251--2nd-suspected-coronavirus-death-in-egypt

2nd suspected coronavirus death in Egypt
05 May 2014 21:44 (Last updated 05 May 2014 21:46)
The woman, in her 50s, passed away in the Nile Delta province of Menoufiya, Health Ministry official Hanaa Sorour said.

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An Egyptian woman suspected of infection with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), commonly known as coronavirus, died on Monday, the second such fatality in the Arab world's most populous state.

The woman, in her 50s, passed away in the Nile Delta province of Menoufiya, Health Ministry official Hanaa Sorour said.

Sorour said that the woman had returned from Saudi Arabia one week ago.

Tests, however, did not confirm or deny that coronavirus was behind the fatality, according to Sorour.

Earlier Monday, the Health Ministry said that a 60-year-old woman suspected to have contracted MERS died in the canal city of Port Said.

According to the ministry, the woman had suffered MERS-like symptoms days after returning from Saudi Arabia, where the virus has killed at least 112 people since it first hit the kingdom in late 2012...

 

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Re: Egypt - Woman, 50s, suspected coronavirus MERS death in Menoufia - MoH not confirmed yet

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Egyptian Health Ministry denies any MERS fatalities
Tuesday 06 May 2014 : 02:47 PM

The Ministry of Health asserted in a Tuesday statement that the two women who died the previous day following their return from a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia were not infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

One woman, a 60-year-old, died on Monday in the Port Said Fever Hospital while the other died in the Delta's Menoufiya Governorate on the same day.

The ministry's statement affirmed that the medical tests conducted on the two women confirm the cause of their deaths to be entirely unrelated to MERS...