Thailand takes four days to confirm first Mers case
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THAI authorities took nearly four days to confirm the country's first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), the health ministry said on Friday, a time lag likely to raise fears of a further spread of the deadly virus in Asia.
Thailand confirmed its first case of Mers on Thursday, a 75-year-old businessman from Oman, just as an outbreak in South Korea that began last month and has infected 166 people, and killed 24 of them, appeared to be levelling off.
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