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MERS spreading into South Korea and China now.
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Today's update, courtesy of The AFP brought both good news and bad. The good news is that 67 people who had previously tested positive for the MERS virus in South Korea have now fully recovered and been discharged from the hospital. Also, for the third day in a row, there were no new fatalities. The bad news, unfortunately, is that four more people were diagnosed with the virus, bringing the total number of cases to 179 while 3,100 remain under quarantine at state facilities or at home.
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Originally posted by dillinger10 View PostWow, that escalated quickly. In less than 24 hours the number of people quarantined rose from 10 to more than 700 though given that both South Korea and China are so densely populated areas this should probably not be a surprise. I just read this article which provides some alarming numbers, including the fact that of the 1,139 laboratory-confirmed cases of MERS globally, 37 percent (431 people) have died. This makes this a potentially lethal epidemic, especially with no curable vaccine currently available.
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It has been a while since this thread has been updated but there was some news today as the South Korean government declared an end to its outbreak of MERS as there have been no new cases reported for more than three weeks.
During the outbreak, which began on May 20, more than 16,000 people were quarantined, 186 were infected and 36 died.
Not surprisingly, tourism has been greatly affected since the outbreak of the virus. Tourist arrivals into South Korea dropped more than 40% in June and almost 60% in the first 15 days of July.
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