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Author: Bernard-Stoecklin, Sibylle; Nikolay, Birgit; Assiri, Abdullah; Bin Saeed, Abdul Aziz; Ben Embarek, Peter Karim; El Bushra, Hassan; Ki, Moran; Malik, Mamunur Rahman; Fontanet, Arnaud; Cauchemez, Simon; Van Kerkhove, Maria D.
Title: Comparative Analysis of Eleven Healthcare-Associated Outbreaks of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (Mers-Cov) from 2015 to 2017
  • Document date: 2019_5_14
  • ID: 1t3hg4wi_1
    Snippet: Such large healthcare-associated (HCA) outbreaks have mainly been limited to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arabian Emirates (UAE) until the spring 2015, when a single imported case of MERS returning from the Middle East initiated a cluster of 186 cases in the Republic of Korea (ROK) across at least 17 hospitals and much of the country 18 . Super spreading events in healthcare settings has been described for several previous MER.....
    Document: Such large healthcare-associated (HCA) outbreaks have mainly been limited to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arabian Emirates (UAE) until the spring 2015, when a single imported case of MERS returning from the Middle East initiated a cluster of 186 cases in the Republic of Korea (ROK) across at least 17 hospitals and much of the country 18 . Super spreading events in healthcare settings has been described for several previous MERS outbreaks, including an outbreak in Al-Hasa governorate in 2013 and during the outbreak in ROK, where approximately 80% of the transmission events were epidemiologically linked to five MERS cases 14, 18, 23 . Superspreading events in health care facilities have been observed in similar high threat respiratory disease pathogens, such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Canada, China, Singapore [24] [25] [26] .

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