South Korean man first MERS-related death since July

A South Korean man died of complications from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Sunday, in the first death linked to the virus in the country for more than three months.

• POSTED: 26 Oct 2015 01:48

SEOUL: A  man died of complications from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Sunday, in the first death linked to the virus in the country for more than three months.

The 66-year-old man was diagnosed in June after contracting the virus at the Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul - one of the major epicentres of the disease that swept the country between May and July, Seoul's health ministry said.

He was later said to be cured of the disease but had been battling an acute lung ailment that was a complication resulting from the virus.

Seoul had declared the outbreak effectively over at the end of July, but earlier this month a 35-year-old man believed to have been cured of the virus was rediagnosed.

The diagnosis dealt a blow to South Korea's hopes of being declared free of the disease that has infected 186 people in the country, killing 36 of them, since its outbreak in May.

The patient is currently under treatment along with four others who were officially cured from the virus but are suffering from various health setbacks caused by the disease.

The virus is considered a deadlier but less infectious cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed hundreds of people when it appeared in Asia in 2003.

The outbreak took a heavy toll on Asia's fourth-largest economy, stifling consumer spending and devastating the tourist sector.

- AFP/de

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/south-korean-man-first/2217192.html

WHO-A South Korean man

WHEN-since July

WHAT- died of complications from MERS on Sunday, in the first death linked to the virus in the country for more than three months.

WHY- battling an acute lung ailment that was a complication resulting from the virus.

WHERE-South Korean
HOW-not given



Keywords:
complication (n) 併發症
diagnose (v) 診斷
epicentres (n) 震央
battle (v) 戰鬥         
acute (adj) 急性的
ailment (n) 病
ministry (n) 部
stifle (v) 窒息
devastate (v) 蹂躪

CHAMPIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI (b. 1945)

  Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been a major voice for human rights and freedom in Burma (Myanmar), a country dominated by a military government since 1962. Born in Rangoon and later educated at Oxford University, she became politically active in 1988 when the Burmese junta violently suppressed a mass uprising, killing thousands of civilians. Suu Kyi wrote an open letter to the government asking for the formation of an independent committee to hold democratic elections. Defying a government ban on political gatherings of more than four persons, Suu Kyi spoke to large audiences throughout Burma as secretary-general of the newly formed National League for Democracy (NLD). In 1989 she was placed under house arrest. Despite her detention, the NLD won the election with 82 percent of the parliamentary seats, but the military dictatorship refused to recognize the results. Suu Kyi has remained in prison almost continuously since that time, rejecting the government’s offer of freedom as it would require her to leave Burma. In 2003, she was moved from prison and again placed under house arrest, which has been repeatedly and illegally extended by the junta. She remains a living expression of her people’s determination to gain political and economic freedoms. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, Suu Kyi has called on citizens around the world to “use your liberty to promote ours.”

http://www.humanrights.com/voices-for-human-rights/daw-aung.html

1.committee  (n) 委員會

2.suppress  (v)鎮壓

3.democratic (adj) 民主的

4.parliamentary (adj) 國會的

5.detention (n) 拘留

6.citizen (n) 市民、公民

7.league (n) 聯盟

8.liberty (n) 自由