Suspected Saudi Ebola sufferer dies of heart attack


"The patient died of cardiac arrest, despite efforts by the medical team to resuscitate him," the ministry website reported.




The Saudi case was announced Tuesday by the , which said the patient had been quarantined in hospital in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.



The World Health Organisation began Wednesday a two-day emergency meeting in Geneva on the epidemic, with the UN agency deciding whether to declare it an international crisis.


But the scale of concern is underlined by the WHO emergency session itself, since such consultations are relatively rare.


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