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Late on a Friday night Dr Mike Beadsworth left the Royal Liverpool hospital after a "pretty hellish couple of weeks". The clinical director of tropical and infectious diseases and his team had spent weeks trying to save the life of a Middle Eastern man who had been diagnosed with a deadly virus.

The man had contracted Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), the first such diagnosis in the UK since 2013.