Author: Alagaili, Abdulaziz N.; Briese, Thomas; Amor, Nabil M.S.; Mohammed, Osama B.; Lipkin, W. Ian
Title: Waterpipe smoking as a public health risk: Potential risk for transmission of MERS-CoV Document date: 2018_5_3
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Snippet: The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) emerged in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012 causing a critical challenge to public health (Zaki et al., 2012) . According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have been a total of 2147 cases of MERS-CoV worldwide with 750 fatal cases (fatality rate of 34.99%). While these MERS-CoV cases were reported from at least 27 countries, the largest proportion of recorded cases were from Saudi Ara.....
Document: The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) emerged in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012 causing a critical challenge to public health (Zaki et al., 2012) . According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have been a total of 2147 cases of MERS-CoV worldwide with 750 fatal cases (fatality rate of 34.99%). While these MERS-CoV cases were reported from at least 27 countries, the largest proportion of recorded cases were from Saudi Arabia, followed by South Korea (WHO, 2015) . As of March 20, 2018, a total of 1738 cases of MERS-CoV infections with 703 fatal cases (fatality rate of 41.6%) were reported by the Saudi Ministry of Health (https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/CCC/PressReleases). MERS-CoV has shown a considerably high pathogenicity and mortality among patients who are infected with the virus, particularly immunocompromised ones (Assiri et al., 2013; Arabi et al., 2014) .
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