Terrible virus in South Korea. Already 30 people infected – Virtual Poland

Up to 30 increased the number infected with MERS in South Korea and more than 750 people were quarantined – have informed the authorities of that country. Due to concerns that the virus can spread, temporarily closed more than 200 schools.
 

How clarifies the agency Kyodo, people quarantined staying in their homes or in hospital settings. Among the five new cases of infection MERS is the person having contact with the patient, who in turn immediately contacted the 68-year-old man – the first patients with MERS in South Korea.

The 68-year-old was diagnosed on May 20, two weeks after arriving from the Middle East. The man spent two days in Saudi Arabia, where MERS was first identified in September 2012.
 

The vast majority of cases later in South Korea. He was associated with the first patient – or was it the medical staff or patients and their family members who were with him in the hospital before he was finally diagnosed and isolated. Also, the first two fatalities were treated in the same hospital as the first patient.
 

In terms of the number of cases of MERS South Korea. It is the third country after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Authorities in Seoul have been criticized for incorrect risk assessment and admission to spread the virus when initially overlooked symptoms in the first patient.

deadly virus
 

MERS is similar to the virus causing severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS, which 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 38 percent. MERS virus infected dies; there is no vaccine. According to data from the European Centre for. Prevention and Control (ECDC) from 2012 onwards. The world was recorded 1 172 cases of MERS infection, including 479 deaths, with more than 400 in the same Saudi Arabia.