Sinds 20 mei jl is er in Zuid-Korea een uitbraak van MERS.
Ondertussen loopt het aantal geïnfecteerden op, waaronder een persoon die besmet was en naar China is gereisd, en hiermee het eerste MERS-geval in China werd. Ook zijn de eerste doden al gevallen.
Er wordt druk gespeculeerd dat het virus gemuteerd is, en daardoor besmettelijker geworden is dan voorheen.
Er waren 5 geïnfecteerden in de eerste week, en 20 in de tweede.
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Zuid-Korea sluit meer dan 200 scholen wegens dodelijk MERS-virus
In Zuid-Korea is besloten om zo’n 230 scholen te sluiten uit voorzorg, omdat in het land het MERS-virus woedt. Steeds meer mensen raken besmet, deze week vielen ook de eerste doden aan de gevaarlijke ademhalingsziekte.
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2015-06-01 13:35 (GMT+8)
13 people who had contact with Guangdong MERS patient sought
Authorities in south China's Guangdong province are still trying to reach 13 people who had close contact with the country's first Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patient.
A man from the Republic of Korea was tested positive for the deadly MERS virus in Guangdong on Friday. He is receiving medical treatment in the city of Huizhou with doctors saying his situation has worsened, the provincial health and family planning commission said Sunday.
Meanwhile, the number of people who had been in close contact with the patient rose to 77 in Guangdong, the commission said. Among them, 64 have been quarantined while 13 others, including 11 passengers on a bus boarded by the man, have remained out of contact.
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June 2, 2015, 12:17 am TW
More than 680 in South Korea isolated over MERS fears
SEOUL -- More than 680 people in South Korea are isolated after having contact with patients infected with a virus that has killed hundreds of people in the Middle East, health officials said Monday.
South Korea has reported 17 cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome since diagnosing the country's first MERS illness last month in a man who had traveled to Saudi Arabia. South Korea's cases have connections to the first patient, either medical staff who treated him or patients who stayed near the man at the hospital before he was diagnosed and isolated.
Also, the son of one of the patients ignored doctor's orders to cancel a trip to China, where he was diagnosed as that country's first MERS case last week. China isolated the South Korean man at a hospital, and Hong Kong authorities said Sunday that 18 travelers were being quarantined because they sat near him, but they were not showing symptoms.
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2015-06-02 09:45:56
MERS fears peak in S. Korea on first two deaths, tertiary infection
Fears for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) reached a peak in South Korea as the first two deaths and tertiary infection were reported Tuesday.
Two infectees, who have passed away on Monday and Tuesday, were initially excluded from the quarantine list of the health authorities, and the government is expected to be under harsher criticism for the bungling of its initial response.
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2015-06-02 16:51
`MERS gets out of hand'
Mutation of virus likely so search for cure should start now: expert
Hakim Djaballah
CEO of Insitut Pasteur Korea
Given its unusually high infection and relative fatality rates, it is likely that the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus has mutated in Korea, an infectious disease expert said Tuesday.
Infographic over MERS:
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Ondertussen loopt het aantal geïnfecteerden op, waaronder een persoon die besmet was en naar China is gereisd, en hiermee het eerste MERS-geval in China werd. Ook zijn de eerste doden al gevallen.
Er wordt druk gespeculeerd dat het virus gemuteerd is, en daardoor besmettelijker geworden is dan voorheen.
Er waren 5 geïnfecteerden in de eerste week, en 20 in de tweede.
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Vandaag om 08:06
Zuid-Korea sluit meer dan 200 scholen wegens dodelijk MERS-virus
In Zuid-Korea is besloten om zo’n 230 scholen te sluiten uit voorzorg, omdat in het land het MERS-virus woedt. Steeds meer mensen raken besmet, deze week vielen ook de eerste doden aan de gevaarlijke ademhalingsziekte.
http://ift.tt/1AMPWQi
Citaat:
2015-06-01 13:35 (GMT+8)
13 people who had contact with Guangdong MERS patient sought
Authorities in south China's Guangdong province are still trying to reach 13 people who had close contact with the country's first Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patient.
A man from the Republic of Korea was tested positive for the deadly MERS virus in Guangdong on Friday. He is receiving medical treatment in the city of Huizhou with doctors saying his situation has worsened, the provincial health and family planning commission said Sunday.
Meanwhile, the number of people who had been in close contact with the patient rose to 77 in Guangdong, the commission said. Among them, 64 have been quarantined while 13 others, including 11 passengers on a bus boarded by the man, have remained out of contact.
http://ift.tt/1EVien0
Citaat:
June 2, 2015, 12:17 am TW
More than 680 in South Korea isolated over MERS fears
SEOUL -- More than 680 people in South Korea are isolated after having contact with patients infected with a virus that has killed hundreds of people in the Middle East, health officials said Monday.
South Korea has reported 17 cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome since diagnosing the country's first MERS illness last month in a man who had traveled to Saudi Arabia. South Korea's cases have connections to the first patient, either medical staff who treated him or patients who stayed near the man at the hospital before he was diagnosed and isolated.
Also, the son of one of the patients ignored doctor's orders to cancel a trip to China, where he was diagnosed as that country's first MERS case last week. China isolated the South Korean man at a hospital, and Hong Kong authorities said Sunday that 18 travelers were being quarantined because they sat near him, but they were not showing symptoms.
http://ift.tt/1ANkOQK
Citaat:
2015-06-02 09:45:56
MERS fears peak in S. Korea on first two deaths, tertiary infection
Fears for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) reached a peak in South Korea as the first two deaths and tertiary infection were reported Tuesday.
Two infectees, who have passed away on Monday and Tuesday, were initially excluded from the quarantine list of the health authorities, and the government is expected to be under harsher criticism for the bungling of its initial response.
http://ift.tt/1ANkQIv
Citaat:
2015-06-02 16:51
`MERS gets out of hand'
Mutation of virus likely so search for cure should start now: expert
Hakim Djaballah
CEO of Insitut Pasteur Korea
Given its unusually high infection and relative fatality rates, it is likely that the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus has mutated in Korea, an infectious disease expert said Tuesday.
http://ift.tt/1EVicLX
MERS in Zuid-Korea
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