Monday, June 08, 2015

Korea MERS Cluster Rises To 95 Cases, 7 Deaths










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Tonight's update from the Korean HHS indicates a net increase of 8 cases over yesterday, including 1 death. The translated release is, as always challenging.

Samsung Hospital, which has been the second epicenter of infection - reporting 17 cases yesterday - comes in with only 3 cases today.  

Three hospitals previously listed as having had patients pass through them, but not with confirmed cases, are now mentioned:

  • Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital
  • Asan Medical Center emergency room stays the same * (Chungnam Bo hwanyeon)
  • St. Mary's Hospital Yoido


Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers has managed to parse the details on today's cases.

  • 88 (Male, 47 years) 6.8 .5.28 # 6 of stay and the same room (# 6 of the law), St. Mary's Hospital Yoido
  • 89 (Male, 59 years) 6.8 .5.28 Samsung Seoul Hospital emergency room stays
  • 90 (Male, 62 years) 6.8 .5.27 Samsung Seoul Hospital emergency room admission (charging Bo hwanyeon)
  • 91 (Male, 49 years) 6.8 # 14 in the same emergency room stays, Samsung Seoul Hospital (Bo game hwanyeon)
  • 92 (Male, 27 years old) 6.8 .5.26 # 6 and Asan Medical Center emergency room stays the same * (Chungnam Bo hwanyeon) * Not Asan Medical Center, Seoul
  • 93(Female, 64 years) 6.8 .5.28 ~ 29 # 15 and Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Dongtan stay in the same room (Seoul Bo hwanyeon)
  • 94 (Male, 71 years) 6.8 .5.27 ~ 28 # 15 and Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, the same hospital room hospital in Dongtan (Bo game hwanyeon)
  • 95 (Male, 76 years) 6.8 # 16 in contact with the hospital in Konyang (charging Bo hwanyeon)
For what it's worth, here is the machine translation of today's announcement.  


Samsung Seoul Hospital, who confirmed the relevant three trends decreases name



With valvular heart disease History # 47 death , 68 -year-old woman diagnosed with characters from the Samsung Medical Center contact -
It confirmed that eight additional cases and deaths had first announced the name was .
of the three patients , 14 diagnosed with respect to the second party 5.27 - 5.28 days between the people exposed at Samsung Seoul Hospital emergency room , there is such symptoms as fever was confirmed in the final positive genetic test conducted Homers . 

remaining five patients had other sporadic at other institutions ever to occur ,- of which two of them 6 th confirmed related parties , respectively, 5.26 at Asan Medical Center, and 5.28 and in one case of contact Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital, the same hospital room ,


- two of them 5.28 ~ 5.29 at 15 th confirmed the relevant parties , Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Dongtan same room was in contact .

         - the remaining one whom 16 are first diagnosed case of contact from the chair and Konyang hospital .