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MERS-COV epidemic (foreign updates)
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Topic Started: Apr 18 2014, 08:28 PM (716 Views)
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MSantor
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Jun 9 2015, 12:48 AM
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MERS Outbreak Highlights South Korea’s Information Controls The South Korean government has tightly controlled information on the MERS outbreak, especially affected hospitals.
An outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea is stoking public concern after claiming four lives, while also shining a light on restrictions on information in the country.
The outbreak, which has sickened at least 41 people and led to the quarantine of more than 1,600, has also sparked public anger at the government for failing to control the spread. Public criticism has also targeted a number of individuals, including a doctor, who were accused of not following their quarantine orders.
But it has been the government’s refusal to publicly reveal the hospitals treating the sick that has perhaps generated the most anger and anxiety.
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Jun 11 2015, 10:47 AM
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Yikes!!!
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South Korea reports 14 new MERS cases, takes total to 122
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's health ministry on Thursday reported 14 new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), taking the total to 122 in an outbreak that is the largest outside Saudi Arabia.
Among the newly reported cases was a pregnant woman who contracted the virus at the emergency ward of a Seoul hospital that has been linked to a number of other confirmed cases, the ministry said.
The spread of the disease has stirred up public fear and confusion, prompting President Park Geun-hye to postpone a visit to the United States, while health officials have been criticized over a lack of transparency and for failing to swiftly contain the spread.
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking"- Gen. George S. Patton
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MSantor
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Jun 13 2015, 10:37 PM
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It's getting worse. Yikes!
From Reuters via ABS-CBN
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South Korean shopping, baseball, movies and art hit by MERS
Reuters Posted at 06/10/2015 1:55 PM | Updated as of 06/10/2015 9:41 PM SEOUL - South Korean high street spending fell dramatically in the first week of June as fears over an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) kept shoppers at home, but online purchases rose, government estimates showed on Wednesday.
President Park Geun-hye postponed a US visit to supervise the handling of the outbreak, as two more people died and 13 new cases were reported, lifting the total number of patients to 108.
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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking"- Gen. George S. Patton
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Jun 14 2015, 08:44 PM
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Hospital at center of South Korea's MERS suspends services; seven new cases Sun Jun 14, 2015 7:00am EDT
By Jack Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean hospital suspended most services on Sunday after being identified as the epicenter of the spread of a deadly respiratory disease that has killed 15 people since being diagnosed in the country nearly four weeks ago.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called an emergency meeting for Tuesday on South Korea's "large and complex" outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the biggest outside Saudi Arabia, where it was first identified in humans in 2012.
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking"- Gen. George S. Patton
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Jun 18 2015, 11:47 PM
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O-ohh...
Thailand confirms first MERS case - health ministry ReutersReuters – 4 hours ago
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand confirmed its first case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus on Thursday, according to the country's health ministry.
The virus was detected in a businessman from Oman, the country's health minister told reporters.
"From two lab tests we can confirm that the MERS virus was found," said Public Health Minister Rajata Rajatanavin.
(Reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre)
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/thailand-confirms-first-mers-case-health-ministry-113838270--business.html
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Jun 19 2015, 01:15 PM
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Yikes!
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Thailand took four days to confirm first MERS case, 59 being monitored
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities took nearly four days to confirm the country's first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the health ministry said on Friday, a time lag likely to raise fears of a further spread of the deadly virus in Asia.
Thailand confirmed its first case of MERS on Thursday, a 75-year-old businessman from Oman, just as an outbreak in South Korea that began last month and has infected 166 people, and killed 24 of them, appeared to be leveling off.
Thai Public Health Minister Rajata Rajatanavin said 59 people who had come into contact with the infected man were being monitored.
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Jun 21 2015, 10:16 AM
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South Korea reports three new cases of MERS, taking total to 169 Sat Jun 20, 2015 8:46pm EDT
A man wearing a mask to prevent contracting Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) rides on an escalator in Seoul, South Korea, June 19, 2015. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji 1 of 1Full Size SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Health Ministry reported on Sunday three more cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, bringing the total to 169 in an outbreak that is the largest outside of Saudi Arabia.
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Jun 24 2015, 04:18 AM
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Could MERS Permanently Tarnish South Korea's Government? The answer is more complicated than you might think.
Se-Woong Koo has a great Twitter photo and way-too-few followers. He is the editor-in-chief of Korea Exposé, a web journal that publishes sharp criticisms of South Korean society and politics. Koo recently published an op-ed in the New York Times entitled “Yet Another Disaster for Seoul.” It’s a strong, and justified, indictment of the Park Geun-hye administration. Government in South Korea has had its fair share of blunders, with the relatively poor handling of the recent MERS outbreak just the latest administrative faux pas.
In the third to last paragraph, Koo delivers his coup de grâce. He writes:
Government ineptitude has laid bare some uncomfortable truths. South Korea, as seen from the outside, is indeed that rare country that transitioned from poverty and dictatorship to affluence and democracy in a miraculously short time. Yet it is viewed by many people here as a crony capitalist state run by corrupt elites who have monopolized power and the national economy, fostering government incompetence and popular distrust of the state.
It’s a bold and provocative claim, and one that deserves some unpacking. Perhaps, for some, its counter-“rise” narrative will be most refreshing. It’s easy – too easy – to get swept away by South Korea’s rags to riches story. Rice paddy backwater to industrial powerhouse is as powerful a tale as any, and one that tends to subvert or overshadow more critical narratives. (...SNIPPED)
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Jul 2 2015, 09:28 PM
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S. Korea waives visa fees for Chinese tourists as MERS outbreak scares off visitors
South Korea announced yesterday that it decided to waive visa fees for tourists from China and Southeast Asia in a hope to boost tourism, which took a hit in the wake of the MERS outbreak. Nearly 70 thousand tourists cancelled their plans to visit the land of K-pop last month, according to Tencent News. Around 300 Chinese nationals were reported to have cancelled their flights immediately after the outbreak was reported at the end of May. Now, visas which had already been issued between March 1 and June 30 will be automatically extended for another three months, the Justice Ministry said. These visas had been issued to more than a million tourists. Effective from July 6 through to September 30, the country will waive the US$15 visa fees for group-travelling tourists from countries including China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. Meanwhile, Chinese tourists travelling in groups with Japanese visas will be allowed to enter South Korea and stay for up to 15 days without a local visa.
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Aug 21 2015, 02:32 AM
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Saudi MERS infections soar ahead of hajj pilgrimage
Agence France-Presse Posted at 08/21/2015 1:59 AM | Updated as of 08/21/2015 2:16 AM MERS coronavirus infections have soared in Saudi Arabia ahead of the hajj pilgrimage, killing three people and forcing a Riyadh hospital to close its emergency ward, officials and newspapers said Thursday.
The Saudi Gazette said authorities shut the emergency ward at one of the capital’s largest hospitals, King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC-R), "after at least 46 people, including hospital staff" contracted the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
The health ministry has said it registered 21 confirmed MERS infections, all but one of them in Riyadh, between August 9 and 15.
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"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking"- Gen. George S. Patton
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