Experts downplay MERS crisis;
S. Korea records 14th death
KIM TONG-HYUNG
Jun 13th 2015 7:12AM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Experts from the World Health Organization
and South Korea on Saturday downplayed concerns about the MERS virus
spreading further within the country, which recorded its 14th death and a
dozen new infections, but said it was premature to declare the outbreak
over.
After a weeklong review of the outbreak of Middle East respiratory
syndrome, the panel of experts told a news conference that there was no
evidence to suggest the virus is spreading in the community. The
outbreak in South Korea has so far been occurring only in hospitals,
among patients, family members who visited them and medical staff
treating them.
The virus has spread at a pattern similar to previous outbreaks in
the Middle East, and the sequencing studies of samples from South Korea
show no signs that the virus has increased its ability to transmit
between humans, said WHO Assistant Director Keiji Fukuda.VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW OF 44 PHOTOS HERE
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