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who.int - reuters.com - Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Robert Birsel - June 12, 2015
SEOUL (Reuters) - A World Health Organization (WHO) team of experts said on Saturday South Korea's outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is "large and complex" and more cases should be anticipated.
The WHO has conducted a joint review with South Korean officials and experts of the country's response to the MERS outbreak which has infected 138 people and killed 14 of them since the first case was diagnosed on May 20.
WHO - Disease Outbreak News (DON) - Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – Republic of Korea
June 12, 2015
Starting from 12 June 2015, Disease Outbreak News concerning MERS-CoV in the Republic of Korea will be published on a bi-weekly basis (on Tuesdays and Fridays).
http://www.who.int/csr/don/12-june-2015-mers-korea/en/
WHO - Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) - 12 June 2015, vol. 90, 24 - (see page 12)
The Director-General has convened an Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) to advise her as to whether this event constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) and on the public health measures that should be taken. The Committee has met a number of times since the disease was first identified. WHO encourages all Member States to enhance their surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) and to carefully review any unusual patterns of SARI or pneumonia cases.
http://www.who.int/wer/2015/wer9024/en/
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/13/us-health-mers-southkorea-who-idUSKBN0OT02X20150613
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2015/06/13/south-koreas-mers-outbreak-is-large-and-complex/
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Deadly Delay: Long ER Waits Aggravate South Korea MERS Spread
reuters.com - by Ju-Min Park - June 11, 2015
The man who became South Korea's MERS patient number 14 waited two-and-a-half days in the emergency ward for a bed to open at a prestigious Seoul hospital – not an unusually long time for the city's top medical centers.
By the time the 35-year-old was suspected of infection with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), nearly 900 hospital staff, visitors and patients had been through the emergency ward.
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