A woman who was on the same flight as a man confirmed to have the deadly MERS virus has been rushed to hospital in Hong Kong.
The middle-aged local was wearing full protective gear, as were the medical staff escorting her, when she was picked up from her Sham Shui Po home by an ambulance and taken to Princess Margaret Hospital at around 12pm today.
According to a SCMP source, the woman has been experiencing symptoms of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, commonly known as MERS.
The virus is more deadly but less contagious than Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed 299 people in Hong Kong in 2003.
On Tuesday, the unlucky lady was on the same Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul to Hong Kong as a 44-year-old Korean man who has now been confirmed as having the virus.
He really should have known better, given that fact that his father and older sister have both recently been confirmed as having MERS back home, and the fact that he was experiencing symptoms of fever.
He was even placed under medical surveillance in South Korea and told not to travel… but… hey ho, whaddaya know?
Oh, and in case you haven’t heard, he didn’t stop in Hong Kong but took a bus – of which passengers are nearly impossible to trace – from Hong Kong to Guangdong.
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