MERS Virus posts
NBC News "It is the assessment of the government and the medical community that the public can rest easy."
South Korea Declares Itself Out of MERS Danger
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Twelve people remain hospitalized in South Korea for MERS although only one is still testing positive for the MERS virus, the Health Ministry says.
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National Geographic The deadly MERS virus, which has been hopscotching the globe for three years, has just landed in yet another country: Thailand. What will stop it from spreading?
MERS Virus Migrates to One More Country. What Will Contain It?
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The new case arises just as international health officials are raising concerns about the conditions that allow it to spread.
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Yahoo Thailand is the fourth Asian country to register the deadly MERS virus in 2015.
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NPR The current outbreak in Korea shows the MERS virus' ability to hitch a ride on a commercial airline and then cause havoc once it lands. The most promising potential weapon against the disease could be a camel vaccine. Rather than try to address MERS Read more ... directly in humans, the idea would be to stop the virus at a source.
Why MERS Will Likely Crop Up Outside The Middle East Again
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It's unknown what triggers an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome. But scientists think the virus comes from camels. So until we stop it in animals, MERS will continue to cause trouble.
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The New York Times Quotation of the Day: "Now the government is belatedly trying to mend the fence after the cow had already been stolen." — Choi Chang-woo, head of a civic group in South Korea, on the government’s promise of an “all-out national response” to t Read more ... he MERS virus after weeks of restricting information.
MERS Virus’s Path: One Man, Many South Korean Hospitals
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The MERS virus found ideal conditions to spread quickly in South Korea, where emergency rooms are known to cram seats and beds closely together and patients hospital shop.
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NBC News About 1,870 schools have closed and more than 2,000 people are isolated at their homes or state-run facilities after having contact with patients infected with the virus.
Sixth Person Dies of MERS Virus in South Korea
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A total of 87 people in South Korea have been infected by MERS since last month in the largest outbreak outside the Middle East.
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NBC News The MERS virus is frightening, but is it time to worry? Here are some answers to your questions about MERS.
What Is MERS — and Should We Be Worried?
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Hundreds of schools across South Korea are closed, trains are being scrubbed and health officials are threatening to forcibly quarantine some people.
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NPR In the past, MERS hasn't been very contagious — at all. The virus is actually lousy at spreading from person to person, usually moving on to, at most, one other person.
Then last month, a 68-year-old businessman picked up MERS in the Middle East a Read more ... nd brought it to South Korea. Before health officials knew he had MERS, he had visited at least three hospitals seeking care and likely spread MERS to more than 20 people.
Viral Superspreader? How One Man Triggered A Deadly MERS Outbreak
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In the past week, cases of the Middle East respiratory syndrome have more than tripled in South Korea. Researchers now have a clue to why the outbreak has grown so large, so quickly.
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HuffPost Lifestyle The MERS virus is related to SARS and the common cold, but has a much higher mortality rate.
This Is What We Know About The MERS Virus So Far
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South Korea is grappling with an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome that has killed two and infected 30 people in total. In the same virus family as the common cold and SARS, the illness is
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Newsweek An outbreak of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus continues to pick up steam in Asia.
MERS: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Here’s what you need to know about the respiratory virus.
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