Until the last few days, the WHO's position on MERS has been:
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That position may need re-thinking after a man returned to South Korea from Saudi with a dose of MERS and since late May, has managed to infect 24 other people, two of whom have already died.
Seems pretty likely we have achieved a little more than very limited human-human transmission.
It could certainly be a statistical aberration, but it's a disturbing sign in a disease with a 30% mortality rate.
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The current pattern of disease appears to be the result of repeated introductions of the virus from camels to people, resulting in limited human to human transmission, but not in sustained transmission. |
That position may need re-thinking after a man returned to South Korea from Saudi with a dose of MERS and since late May, has managed to infect 24 other people, two of whom have already died.
Seems pretty likely we have achieved a little more than very limited human-human transmission.
It could certainly be a statistical aberration, but it's a disturbing sign in a disease with a 30% mortality rate.
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