Costly Lessons From the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak in Korea

Since the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak in the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) began on May 11, 2015, a total of 186 persons have been infected by the MERS coronavirus, 38 of whom have died. With this number, Korea becomes second only to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the rank...

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Autor principal: Lee, Sang-il
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26639740
http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.15.064
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spelling pubmed-46766472015-12-21 Costly Lessons From the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak in Korea Lee, Sang-il J Prev Med Public Health Perspective Since the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak in the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) began on May 11, 2015, a total of 186 persons have been infected by the MERS coronavirus, 38 of whom have died. With this number, Korea becomes second only to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the ranking of cumulative MERS cases. In this paper Korea’s unique experience of an outbreak of MERS will be summarized and discussed briefly. Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2015-11 2015-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4676647/ /pubmed/26639740 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.15.064 Text en Copyright © 2015 The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676647/
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