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MERS may be spreading in new way
June 13,2015
Korean health authorities suggested the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak may have met a new milestone after a patient was described as the country?s first fourth-generation transmission of the fatal respiratory disease.
But the facts in the case were not entirely clear.
The patient, a 35-year-old seemingly healthy policeman who is now patient No. 119, is in serious condition with collapsed lungs.
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The Ministry of Health and Welfare said on Friday that the 35-year-old policeman in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, is believed to have had contact with Patient No. 52 at the Good Samaritan Bagae Hospital in Pyeongtaek on May 31, although the government is still working on exactly when and where they had contact.
?We have acquired medical records and CCTV footage from the hospital, but only one security camera is set up at the entrance,? said an official of the ministry. ?Those records indicate Patient No. 52 came after Patient No. 119 left the hospital, so we are looking into how long they stayed at the hospital and so on.?
If the policeman is found to have contracted the disease from Patient No. 52, he could be the first reported case of a fourth-generation MERS infection. Patient No. 52, a 54-year-old woman, is now considered a third-generation patient.
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http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3005342
June 13,2015
Korean health authorities suggested the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak may have met a new milestone after a patient was described as the country?s first fourth-generation transmission of the fatal respiratory disease.
But the facts in the case were not entirely clear.
The patient, a 35-year-old seemingly healthy policeman who is now patient No. 119, is in serious condition with collapsed lungs.
...
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said on Friday that the 35-year-old policeman in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, is believed to have had contact with Patient No. 52 at the Good Samaritan Bagae Hospital in Pyeongtaek on May 31, although the government is still working on exactly when and where they had contact.
?We have acquired medical records and CCTV footage from the hospital, but only one security camera is set up at the entrance,? said an official of the ministry. ?Those records indicate Patient No. 52 came after Patient No. 119 left the hospital, so we are looking into how long they stayed at the hospital and so on.?
If the policeman is found to have contracted the disease from Patient No. 52, he could be the first reported case of a fourth-generation MERS infection. Patient No. 52, a 54-year-old woman, is now considered a third-generation patient.
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http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3005342