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MERS Virus’s Path: One Man, Many South Korean Hospitals
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South Korea's crowded hospital environment and Asian culture of being in continual close proximity for caretakers lets the MERS virus spread. The government's failure to alert hospitals of known cases means doctors are totally unaware of the MERS outbreak until many patients with MERS were transferred to larger hospitals in Seoul. The result inhaled droplets of MERS virus and rapid spread. The government feared there would be panic in the neighborhoods and acted too late. The known cases of MERS virus reached 95 cases, and 2500 people are being monitored. All this happened in a few days- The first infected patient was at an hopital in Asan, south of Seoul on May 12-14, 2015. He was sent to a larger hospital St Mary's in Pyeongtaek, near Seoul, with no one knowing he had been to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. From there he was transferred to Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, and he was diagnosed for MERS virus on May 20. By this time 37 people at MERS were infected, and one of them admitted to Samsung hospital in Seoul infected a large number of people there. President Park Geun-hye's Gallup Korea approval rating dropped six percentage points to 34%, and the government moved to make an "all-out response."
South Korea's crowded hospital system and the outbreak of MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) in 2015
06/08/2015
South Korea's hospitals are crowded with patients waiting to get to larger hospitals and using networking to get hospital beds. Patients beds are in close proximity and caretakers live with patients, creating an atmosphere where rapid spread of inhaled droplets of the MERS vrius from coughing patients can occur. The result is 95 people infected with the virus and 2000 cases in a short time. The virus originates from camels in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.
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