News: Another death in Qatar

An expatriate living in Qatar died yesterday after he contracted MERS, bringing to three the number of deaths from the coronavirus in the Gulf state. In September, Qatar announced two other deaths from MERS of a man and a woman.
The World Health Organisation said earlier this month that it has been informed of 153 laboratory-confirmed MERS cases worldwide so far, including 64 deaths, most of them in Saudi Arabia.
Experts are struggling to understand the disease, for which there is no vaccine.
Like SARS, MERS appears to cause a lung infection, with patients suffering from a temperature, coughing and breathing difficulties.
In August, researchers pointed to Arabian camels as possible hosts of the virus.