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and a teenager

[nuthatch]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/world/asia/mers-cases-rise-south-korea-health-officials-say.html?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/world/middleeast/what-you-need-to-know-about-mers.html?action=click&contentCollection=Asia%20Pacific&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

[ttompatz]

Q. What causes it?

A. It is caused by a coronavirus (a virus family named for its “crown” of outer spikes) and is related to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which first appeared in southern China in 2002. SARS infected 8,273 people in 37 countries and killed 775 of them, a mortality rate of nearly 10 percent, before basically disappearing in early 2004. (Although it no longer exists in humans, SARS is not considered permanently eradicated like smallpox or rinderpest, because it circulates in animals and could reappear at any time.)
Q. How does it circulate among humans?

A. Most of the spread appears to be among close family members and within hospitals.

Although it can infect through touch, blood or other transmission routes, MERS has never spread easily and widely like flu or measles, and it appears to infect mainly those who breathe in large amounts of virus. In the SARS epidemic, the most dangerous practices were crowding patients close together or putting pneumonia patients on ventilators and nebulizers, which created clouds of infectious particles that entered ventilation systems. Making sure staff members wear breathing protection, such as N-95 masks or hoods with air filters, is essential. They must be monitored as they remove their gear, experts said, to ensure they do not touch infected surfaces.

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[Stan Rogers]

Anything plague victims touch should be burned.

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WHO Director-General Margaret Chan stated that one of the possible reasons that MERS has spread so rapidly in Korea may be due to Korean culture.

[Joe2010]

TO Candy Bar:

You forget to finish the rest of that sentence.

In an interview with Yonhap News Agency, she said that one of the team's missions is to find out why the disease has spread so rapidly in Korea, adding that one possible reason for the spread within hospitals may be Korean culture that family members attend patients



That practicet MUST immediately STOP. While I can certain understand family members wanting to take care of their sick family member in the hospital room, unfortunately, they themselves are also catching the virus. It is inevitable. Thus, the vicious cycle continues.

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE allowed in the patient's room except for medical staff wearing full protective gear. Tell family members to wait until after the patient has made a full recovery and can no longer transmit the virus.


I'm sure that is one of the recommendations that the WHO will make, now that they are here in Korea analyzing each case.


I'm very relieved to see that hospitals now are completely changing protocol for newly infected patients entering the hospital. Two people will no longer be allowed in the same room at any point. That should help cut down on the risks of hospital infections drastically.


We are extremely lucky that this virus has not started to spread among the general communiity yet. QUARANTINE WORKS if people obey it.


Also, a little bit of good news. They have just finished sequencing the virus and it does not appear to be mutating into anything stronger as of yesterday.

But it is extremely vital to stop or significantly slow down the spread of this virus before it starts to mutate.


I expect to see a continued uptick of the number of new infections for a couple more weeks before it starts to die down.


ALso, just heard that patient zero (or the original patient, a 67 year old man) has just completed a full recovery and will be released from the hospital. Can anyone verify that????

[EZE]

My hagwon is closed until next Monday.

[Scorpion]

How much sympathy are we really expected to have for these old people who've spent a life time spitting everywhere, and sneezing and coughing over everyone? Karma's a bitch.

[Chaparrastique]

[jazzmaster]

[nuthatch]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/world/asia/mers-viruss-path-one-man-many-south-korean-hospitals.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/world/asia/south-korea-mers-cases-rise-as-hong-kong-increases-alert-level.html?action=click&contentCollection=Asia%20Pacific&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

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[The Great Wall of Whiner]

Kimchi apparently not helping protect them like it did during SARS.

[Steelrails]

[Bongotruck]

I see it akin to people who chain smoke for years and are then shocked when they get lung cancer.

The fact that it got lost on you does not surprise me, SR.