Foreign Mers victim recovers in Thai hospital
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Thailand’s second MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) patient, an elderly Omani man, is now getting better.
“His fever is lower. He can sit up and eat food,” Public Health Ministry’s permanent secretary Dr Sopon Mekthon said Tuesday.
The Omani patient had come to Thailand apparently to seek treatment. Last year, another elderly Omani enjoyed a full recovery in Thailand after he was found to have caught the often deadly Mers viral disease.
As of Tuesday, 33 of 40 people who have direct contact with the second Mers patient have already been registered into Thailand’s disease-control system as the country tries to prevent the spread of the disease.
