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Posted: May 29 2015 at 6:54am |
South Korea confirms 10 MERS cases
Published: 10:09 pm, Friday, 29 May 2015 South Korea has confirmed three more MERS cases, bringing the total number of patients infected with the potentially deadly virus to 10.The group includes a man who defied a quarantine protocol and travelled to China, health officials said on Friday. The infections were all traced to the original case of a 68-year-old man diagnosed on May 20 after returning from a trip to Saudi Arabia. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is considered a deadlier but less infectious cousin of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus that appeared in Asia in 2003 and killed hundreds of people, mostly in China. Symptoms may range from flu-like aches and pains to pneumonia and kidney failure. The health ministry said the new MERS cases included a 30-year-old nurse from the hospital where the original case was reported, and a 56-year-old man treated there for other diseases. A 44-year-old man who left for China on a business trip on Tuesday, a day after his father was diagnosed with the virus, was confirmed on Friday to have been infected, it said.The man ignored a warning advising against travel and is now at a hospital in China. A list of 45 people, including colleagues and passengers who had sat close to him on the Hong Kong-bound flight, has been drawn up. The man later travelled from Hong Kong to the nearby Chinese city of Huizhou by bus. Hong Kong's health authorities said they had tracked down and would quarantine 12 people - three Korean, nine Chinese - who had close contact with the man. 'They will be sent to our quarantine camp later this evening,' the Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection chief Leung Ting-hung told reporters. Leung added that two other passengers on the plane, not part of the group of 12, had shown mild respiratory symptoms and were being examined. South Korea's second largest carrier, Asiana Airlines, remains on alert as the man used one of its flights, Yonhap news agency said, adding six crew members had been put in isolation. Health officials said more than 120 people were being monitored after they were exposed directly or indirectly to the original patient. More than 20 countries have been affected by the virus, with most cases in Saudi Arabia where more than 400 have been killed since 2012. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/asiapacific/2015/05/29/south-korea-confirms-10-mers-cases.html |
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SK now reporting 12 total cases this one guy has infected 11 other people in very short order obviously human to human transmission of MERS has suddenly gotten a lot easier the R nought is pretty damn high !!! |
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He may be a super spreader who traveled at exactly the wrong time! 12 MERS Cases Confirmed, Says South Korea http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/12-mers-cases-confirmed-says-south-korea-767053 |
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Sounds like a typhoid Mary type.
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According
to the above media report, in the past 24 hours there has been 1 newly confirmed
case of MERS-CoV in South Korea, bringing the total number of cases reported by
South Korea to 13, with all 13 cases currently representing 2 generations of
cases -- generation 1 being the index case who had traveled in the Middle East
prior to onset of illness upon return to South Korea (see section [5] below for
reminder details of his travels), and generation 2 all being contacts of the
index case in either his family or in the hospital environments where he was
treated primarily before he was diagnosed as having been infected with the
MERS-CoV. Counting the case that was imported into China from South Korea, the
index case in South Korea is now directly responsible for 13 secondary cases...
circumstantial evidence of a superspreader. There are still 4 more days until
the accepted incubation period has ended (14 days) since the diagnosis of
MERS-CoV infection was made, hence it would not be surprising if there were some
additional cases identified. Hopefully appropriate respiratory precautions were
taken with the remaining cases so that 3rd-generation transmission will have
been prevented.
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