BERLIN—A 65-year-old man has died in Germany of complications from Middle East respiratory syndrome, Lower Saxony’s health ministry said.

The man contracted the disease in the United Arab Emirates in February and initially overcame the MERS infection at a hospital in Osnabrück, but he died in a separate clinic on June 6 from a resulting lung infection, the ministry said.

The man is believed to have contracted MERS after visiting an animal market. Camels usually transmit the virus, according to the ministry.

The ministry said more than 200 people have been tested for MERS, but the man didn’t pass the infection on to anyone else.

The Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s disease control and prevention agency, said the case is the third instance of MERS infection in the country.