South Korea Hospitals Close after Serious MERS Outbreaks

South Korea Hospitals Close after Serious MERS Outbreaks

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that spread out of Saudi Arabia to the rest of the world has caused serious outbreaks in South Korea.MERS Virus

Aljazeera reports the suspension of services at two hospitals in Seoul, South Korea, as the hospitals appeared to be the epicenters of MERS. The source says that more than 170 people are thought to have contracted the MERS virus at one of these two hospitals and just a few were infected outside these epicenters of the disease.

The disease entered the country in May this year with a man returning from Saudi Arabia and has spread rapidly within a month time.

This level of MERS infection in South Korea makes stark contradiction to the assurance of the World health Organization (WHO) that MERS isn’t going to be a global public health threat despite killing hundreds of people in Saudi Arabia and abroad and spreading to five continents. The new outbreaks have again undermined WHO’s credibility and rung alarms of a MERS pandemic.

2 thoughts on “South Korea Hospitals Close after Serious MERS Outbreaks

  1. This statement;The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that spread out of Saudi Arabia to the rest of the world has caused serious outbreaks in South Korea should post to as many News Papers and journals as humanly possible. Awareness is the key… shake a few marbles and skater them about … Word Matters…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.