Middle East Respiratory (Mars) virus infection and three more deaths reported in South Korea, authorities said. As a result of the virus death toll rose to 19.


The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health, citing South Korea on Tuesday (16 June), the international media reported.

The first victim of the virus was identified after May 20, 154 cases were reported in the country so far.

Marsh identify the virus infection in 2012 of the global total of four, 55 people were killed. Identify the virus first occurred in Saudi Arabia this year.

Meanwhile, the threat of virus infection in South Korea, more than four thousand people suspicious, "Quarantine" (separated from contact with others) is said to have been kept.

Marsh named this RNA virus infection, initial symptoms of fever and breathing difficulty breathing. The symptoms at first it would seem, is that because of the common cold-cold. But if you do not go to the doctor quickly becomes a person infected with pneumonia and kidney failure.

According to the World Health Organization, Mars infected patients than the fear of death increased by 38 percent.