Toll in MERS outbreak reaches 14 with infection of 145 reported in South Korea

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome MERS outbreak has, so far, killed 14 and the total number infected in South Korea is believed to be 145. There is no vaccine or cure for MERS which, according to World Health Organization (WHO) and the disease has a fatality rate of around 35 percent.
This has been reported in zeenews.com dated 14 June 2015.

Cases have been reported from as far away as Slovakia where one citizen was hospitalized after being suspected of having carried the disease there.
Three out of the seven new of the new cases were in Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul which is one of the largest hospitals in South Korea where over 70 people have contracted the virus. One of the affected was a paramedic who had assisted in transporting a MERS patient to Samsung hospital on June 7.
The authorities also informed that the ambulance driver who was involved in the transportation the patient who died three days later had also been infected.
Among the other new patients one was from the central city of Daejeon and another in the city of Hwaseong, located about 43-Km south of Seoul.
As per reports of the ministry, no new fatalities have been reported and 10 patients so far had recovered and have been released from the hospital.
MERS outbreak also fueled fears in other parts of Asia including Hong Kong – they have advised its citizens to avoid non-essential travel to South Korea. Let us hope it does not take the shape of Yebola virus that has killed thousands. (Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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