France detects two MERS virus cases among tour group
The Peninsula
Paris, France: French authorities have isolated two people infected with the virus that causes Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS) who were amo...
Paris, France: French authorities have isolated two people infected with the virus that causes Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS) who were among a tour group visiting the region, the health ministry said.
MERS is a more deadly but less contagious variation of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that spread from China in the early 2000s.
The MERS coronavirus -- which causes the disease -- is believed to originally come from bats, but humans are normally infected by camels.
The two people now in a "stable" condition in a French hospital had been on "a joint trip to the Arabian Peninsula," the health ministry said in a statement released late Wednesday.
"Management measures have been put in place to limit the risk of transmission of the virus," it added, and no secondary cases had been found. Other people in the tour group are also being monitored.
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