Authorities said that a first case of the dangerous Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS) has been detected in the Netherlands, in a man who had travelled to Saudi Arabia.

The man was diagnosed on Tuesday and is being kept in strict isolation.
His condition is stable, the RIVM said, adding that authorities are getting in touch with everyone he has been in contact with.
MERS causes fever, cough and shortness of breath, and can be lethal particularly among older people and those with pre-existing health problems.
Some 30 percent of the several hundred people infected with it have died, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The virus first emerged in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and recent research has suggested it may originate in camels.
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Source-AFP