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The news continues to come hot and heavy out of Korea, China and Hong Kong - along with the WHO - on their MERS outbreak. Crof and I tend to take and process emerging disease news items as they come over the transom, and between our two blogs post 20 or more times a day.
Keeping up can be difficult, which makes the end-of-day reporting by the team at CIDRAP News particularly valuable, as they are very good at putting together a coherent `big picture' of the day's happenings.
Below you'll find a link to last night's round up by Lisa Schnirring, of which I've only excerpted a small portion. Follow the link to read:
As Korean MERS cases grow, experts analyze patterns
Lisa Schnirring | Staff Writer | CIDRAP News
Jun 02, 2015
South Korea announced 5 more MERS-CoV cases today, raising the number of cases to 30 and leading experts to question if the rapidly evolving hospital cluster is following a pattern seen in Saudi Arabia or if other factors are helping fuel the outbreak.
South Korea is on a list of 16 countries—including the United States—that have reported travel-linked cases. Its outbreak began on May 20 with the detection of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) in a man who had returned from the Middle East.
A flurry of hospital-linked illnesses linked to the man, though, has quickly vaulted the country into the third-most-affected country, behind Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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