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Earlier today, in Philippines Quarantines Imported Asymptomatic MERS Case & Contacts, we learned that a healthcare worker in UAE who had contact with their cluster of MERS cases had flown to the Philippines, and is now hospitalized. Overnight, the World Health Organization updated that UAE Cluster, with the following GAR Disease Outbreak News (DON) report:
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update
Disease Outbreak News
16 April 2014 - On 13 and 14 April 2014 United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported a cluster of ten laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection among health-care workers identified through screening of contacts of a previously laboratory-confirmed case from Abu Dhabi who died on 10 April 2014.
The following details were provided to WHO:
- A 37 year-old woman from Abu Dhabi with no reported underlying medical condition. She was screened and hospitalized on 9 April with mild illness.
- A 41 year-old man from Abu Dhabi with no reported underlying medical condition. He was screened and hospitalized on 9 April.
- A 43 year-old woman from Abu Dhabi with underlying medical conditions. She was screened and hospitalized on 9 April with mild illness.
- A 33 year-old man from Abu Dhabi with no reported underlying medical condition. He was screened and hospitalized on 9 April with mild illness.
- A 46 year-old man from Abu Dhabi with underlying medical conditions. He was screened and hospitalized on 9 April with mild illness.
- A 48 year-old man from Abu Dhabi with underlying medical conditions. He was screened and hospitalized on 9 April, 2014 with symptoms of pneumonia.
- A 37 year-old man from in Abu Dhabi with no reported underlying medical condition. He was screened and hospitalized on 9 April with mild illness.
- A 43 year-old man from Abu Dhabi with no reported underlying medical condition. He was screened and hospitalized on 10 April without any illness.
- A 27 year-old man from Abu Dhabi with underlying medical conditions. He was screened and hospitalized on 10 April without any illness.
- A 43 year-old man from Abu Dhabi with no reported underlying medical condition. He was screened and hospitalized on 10 April without any illness.
Currently, all the cases are in stable condition and their family and health care contacts are being followed up.
