Jordan Reports New MERS Death

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus has affected a 69-year-old man in Jordan, who eventually died due to the disease, a health ministry official said on Sunday. "The man, who suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure, died in hospital on Wednesday," Sultan Kasrawi of the ministry's communicable disease department, told AFP. "He died five days after he was admitted to hospital." Kasrawi said the latest death brings to six the ...