{"id":13047,"date":"2015-05-20T10:05:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/south-korea-reports-first-case-of-mers-virus-patient-stable\/"},"modified":"2015-05-20T10:05:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:05:55","slug":"south-korea-reports-first-case-of-mers-virus-patient-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/south-korea-reports-first-case-of-mers-virus-patient-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea reports first case of MERS virus; patient stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<p>SEOUL (Reuters) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c South Korean health officials on Wednesday confirmed the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in a patient who recently returned from Bahrain and is in stable condition after being treated for a high fever and cough.<\/p>\n<p>              The 68-year-old man was in Bahrain from April 18 through to May 3 and was engaged in farming-related business, South Korea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health ministry said in a statement. He returned to South Korea on May 4 through Qatar, it said.<\/p>\n<p>               (Reporting by Meeyoung Cho; Editing by Tony Munroe)<\/p>\n<ul id=\"topics\" class=\"hidden\">\n<li>South Korea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL (Reuters) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c South Korean health officials on Wednesday confirmed the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in a patient who recently returned from Bahrain and is in stable condition after being treated for a high fever and cough. The 68-year-old man was in Bahrain from April 18 through to May 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}