Selected article for: "acute respiratory syndrome and public health"

Author: Kim, Tae-Il
Title: A clear 'wake-up call' from Korea
  • Document date: 2015_6_24
  • ID: xr4eatc9_2
    Snippet: MERS is caused by a coronavirus from the same family as the one that triggered China's deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003. To the best of our knowledge, the fatality rate of MERS is up to 38 percent of those infected, but it seems to be spreading rather slowly from person to person. Moreover, due to the fact that the spread of Korean MERS is currently occurring primarily in specific environmental conditions such a.....
    Document: MERS is caused by a coronavirus from the same family as the one that triggered China's deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003. To the best of our knowledge, the fatality rate of MERS is up to 38 percent of those infected, but it seems to be spreading rather slowly from person to person. Moreover, due to the fact that the spread of Korean MERS is currently occurring primarily in specific environmental conditions such as overcrowded hospital settings and traditional family gatherings, the United Nations emergency committee has not qualified this outbreak as a public health emergency requiring a worldwide response.

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