UK health authorities say second U.S. MERS case flew via London

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* Patient is second MERS case imported to United States * Health authorities checking other UK-based passengers * Deadly virus first emerged in Middle East in 2012 (Adds details, quotes, CDC statement, background on virus) By Kate Kelland LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) - British health authorities said on Monday they had found a second case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus in a person transiting through London, who flew from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to the United States on May 1. The passenger, who is the second k**wn MERS infected patient to have flown to the United States, was on Saudi Airlines Flight 113 from Jeddah to London, and transferred at Heathrow for onward travel, Public Health England (PHE) said in statement.

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