Saudi Arabia says one more person has died from the Mers virus, bringing to 55 the number of deaths in the kingdom at the center of the outbreak.The Health Ministry said on Sunday that the 37-year-old man had died in Riyadh. He was among the 130 people who have been infected with the virus in Saudi Arabia since September last year.
The new virus is related to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed some 800 people in a global outbreak in 2003. It belongs to a family of viruses that most often causes the common cold.