Kim Bok-soon, 77 who has suffered from asthma for 20 years has recoverde from MERS. According to South Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, the old woman is completely free from the virus and has been released from hospital after receiving intensive care for 8 days.
Kim is the third person reported to have completely recovered from the disease in Korea.
She was believed to have become infected with the virus when she was hospitalized at Pyeongtaek St. Mary’s Hospital to get treatment last month.
She stayed in a ward on the eighth floor from May 4 to May 16. He started experience the fever symptoms after return back home.
She re-visited the hospital and was prescribed stronger medicine but saw no improvement. Her whole body started to ache and two days later, she was confirmed to have been infected with MERS and sent to a government-designated hospital for MERS treatment.
According to the health ministry,Kim’s condition was the most critical among three patients that being infected on May 31 because the virus had already spread through her lungs. Also,pneumonia was found during an X-ray examination and her body temperature rose to 39 degrees Celcius.
Her body temperature returned to normal on June 5 after the intensive care by the hospital. The hospital then carried out tests for the virus on Kim to see if she showed signs of fever or other known symptoms of MERS for 48 hours, and her blood test results were negative two consecutive times.
Kim went home on June 9.
Source :- Korea Times
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