The Department of Health is monitoring five additional cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh.
Saudi officials told the World Health Organisation that a 19-year-old man who had had contact with camels had died of the illness, and three of his contacts were confirmed to have the disease. The other case is an n 83-year-old man who had had no contact with animals or confirmed patients.
This brings the latest global number of confirmed MERS cases to 196, including 83 deaths.
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