Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in Asia: lessons gleaned from the South Korean outbreak
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in Asia: lessons gleaned from the South Korean outbreak
The first case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was reported in 2012. Over the past 3 years, sporadic travel-associated importations occurred to countries in Europe, North Africa and Asia, and cases continued to smoulder in Saudi Arabia, but the risk assessment by most experts was that MERS-CoV was …