Infections in South Korea. is attributed to 68-year-old man who was diagnosed on May 20, two weeks after arriving from the Middle East. The man spent two days in Saudi Arabia, where
MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus) was first identified in September 2012.
Virus in South Korea. He moved directly from human to human. Among the remaining 14 are infected with the man’s relatives, as well as people who had contact with him in the hospital.
Dozens of people, including infected fellow passengers who flew on the same plane from the Middle East, has already been tested or are waiting for tests and quarantine needs. 129 people have already been placed in solitary confinement – writes AFP.
– We do what is necessary, in order to stop the spread of the disease – assured South Korean Health Minister Mun Hiung Pio. He stressed that the coming week will be key to stop the epidemic.
Meanwhile, Chinese health authorities said on Saturday. Hong Kong quarantine that included 18 people from Seoul to Hong Kong flying on the same plane with the 44-year-old South Korean. These people sat near the infected, but so far do not show any symptoms of the virus MERS – gives the agency the Associated Press. Besides, 17 people are under medical supervision.
44-year-old landed Tuesday in Hong Kong, and then bus went to mainland China. He is currently in solitary confinement in a hospital in the south of China.
The Hong Kong authorities have requested to contact us the other passengers to flight no 723 South Korean Asiana Airlines line.
MERS is similar to the virus causing distress syndrome SARS respiratory, who in 2003 killed worldwide approx. 800 people. It can cause coughing, fever and pneumonia. In contrast to the SARS can also lead to renal failure. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 36 per cent. MERS virus infected die.
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