Alarm grows as S Korea reports third Mers death
Victim was the 36th confirmed Mers infection in the country
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Seoul
SOUTH Korea on Thursday confirmed that a man who died a day earlier had been infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), the third fatality in a virus outbreak that has fuelled growing alarm in the country.
The 82-year-old South Korean, in hospital with asthma and bacterial pneumonia, had shared a room with others infected with Mers and died on Wednesday night, the health ministry said in a statement.
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