Middle East respiratory syndrome: what we learned from the 2015 outbreak in the Republic of Korea
Middle East respiratory syndrome: what we learned from the 2015 outbreak in the Republic of Korea
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first isolated from a patient with severe pneumonia in 2012. The 2015 Korea outbreak of MERSCoV involved 186 cases, including 38 fatalities. A total of 83% of transmission events were due to five superspreaders, and 44% of the 186 MERS cases were the …