11 June 2015 (00:38 UTC-07 Tango 01)/21 Kordad 1394/23 Sha’ban 1436/25 Ren-Wu (4th month) 4713

“As patients developed symptoms, they visited big hospitals with better facilities and equipment without any prior notice. It resulted in infections of medical staffs and families of the patients…..”-Lee Jong-koo,  JW LEE Center for Global Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine

The fact that almost all new cases of MERS were contracted in hospitals the UN’s World Health Organization is warning that emergency room procedures need to change.  Lee Jong-koo is working with a UNWHO team investigating why so many people are getting sick in hospitals.

Preliminary results suggest that what happened was at the beginning a few people who got sick sought help through hospital ERs.  They came into contact with many healthcare workers before being diagnosed with MERS.  Those healthcare workers got sick and then spread it to other healthcare workers.

UNWHO investigators are suggesting new ER procedures, such as  limiting contact between healthcare workers and incoming patients, until a diagnoses is made.  Also, constantly transferring ER patients from room to room should be stopped, and patients should be kept separated from other patients.  Basically ERs need to start operating as if there’s an epidemic taking place all the time!

Republic of Korea now reports 122 confirmed cases.  The new cases include a migrant healthcare worker from China.

The Chinese woman got infected after caring for a sick Korean.  As is the trend all new cases were exposed to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome while they were in a hospital.

In China’s Hong Kong, health administrators reported that 31 of 33 people tested for MERS are negative.  Apparently they are still waiting for results for two people.