Avian Flu Diary: Korean CDC: Imported MERS Patient Recovers, Removed From Isolation

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In sharp contrast to their first MERS crisis 3 years ago - which resulted in 185 secondary infections across 16 hospitals and 38 deaths - today South Korea's CDC has announced the recovery of the index case who returned from a business trip to Kuwait 12 days ago.

There remain 21 close contacts (who have not shown symptoms) still in isolation, and they too will be released in two days time, assuming they continue to test negative for the virus.

Machine translations of Korean-to-English are always a little rough, but we can get the gist from the following CDC announcement.

MERS confirmed patient, infected cure

- Both voices are verified and moved to the general room.

◇ Patients with confirmed menses, two mails due to loss of menses symptoms, the final voice will be confirmed on the evening of Monday, September 17, and will move from quarantine to general ward
◇ Sep. 20 (Thu.) The second mart inspection for closely-connected contact persons is conducted.
* Voice confirmation will be quarantined on September 22 (Sat) at 14:00 after 14 days of latency period.

◇ The government will do its best to finish the situation without further propagation until the end of the mails inflow situation.

□ The Ministry of Health and Welfare (Minister of Health and Welfare) said that the MERS test was confirmed twice for the MERS test.

○ On September 8, a patient who was diagnosed as Mers and was admitted to a hospital with a nationally designated hospital treatment (sound pressure) of Seoul National University Hospital reported that the moxibustion of the patient was lost recently,

- The MERS test was carried out twice on September 16 (Sunday) and September 17 (Mon) in accordance with the MERS response guideline *, both of which were verified by voice.

* If the symptom of the confirmed patient disappears after 48 hours and the sample (sputum)

Thus, the patient is released from the afternoon of September 18, and the patient is transferred from the isolation room to the general room to continue the necessary treatment.

□ Twenty-one close contacts who are currently being isolated are scheduled to undergo a secondary Mels test on Thursday, September 20, and will be released at 0:00 on September 22 (Saturday), 14 days after the incubation period. .

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