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. 2015 Nov;48(6):274-6.
doi: 10.3961/jpmph.15.064. Epub 2015 Nov 25.

Costly Lessons From the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak in Korea

Sang-il Lee  1
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Costly Lessons From the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak in Korea

Sang-il Lee. J Prev Med Public Health. 2015 Nov.

Abstract

Since the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak in the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) began on May 11, 2015, a total of 186 persons have been infected by the MERS coronavirus, 38 of whom have died. With this number, Korea becomes second only to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the ranking of cumulative MERS cases. In this paper Korea's unique experience of an outbreak of MERS will be summarized and discussed briefly.

Keywords: Middle East respiratory syndrome; Outbreak; Republic of Korea.

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The author has no conflicts of interest associated with the material presented in this paper.

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