04 November 2015 (08:04 UTC-07 Tango 01)/13 Aban 1394/21 Muharram 1437/23 Ding-Hai 4713
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemic is not finished! After three months of no significant cases of MERS a man in the Republic of Korea (RoK, aka south Korea) has died.
The 66 years old man got infected back in June, while at the Samsung Medical Center. Health administrators declared him cured but he relapsed. He’s not the only person declared cured and then relapsed, a 35 years old man who got infected in July has also relapsed.
44% of infections occurred in Korean hospitals. 33% of infected people were non-health care workers and 13% were healthcare workers. Since May, 36 people in RoK have died from MERS.
RoK Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that the majority of the infections in their country were the result of people called Super Carriers. Five people are identified as causing most of the 186 cases of MERS since May.
Also, on 02 November the Institut Pasteur Korea held a press conference warning of an ebola outbreak in RoK: “It is a question of time for Ebola reaching the Korean peninsula. Global warming [you see, it’s part of the ‘global warming’ conspiracy] significantly expands the territory of the fruit bat, the virus natural host, to the northern hemisphere. In addition, globalization, heavy air travel, will significantly increase the risks of emergent infectious diseases.”-Marc P. Windisch, Hepatitis Research Laboratory
In 2004 France based Institut Pasteur set up in RoK to “discover the biology for infectious diseases”. But in the past few years has focused on MERS and Ebola, as part of a joint operation with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA, considered ground zero for the MERS epidemic) the end of October saw 12 new cases and two deaths. The majority of cases are also tied to infections while in hospital, specifically the Almana General Hospital in Hofuf.
In fact, four KSA hospitals have been identified as being spreaders of the disease. The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy did not name the hospitals but did point out that the first hospital involved with MERS is KSA’s military hospital. This is important as I’ve stated that Operation Jupiter is “A small part of a larger military operation spreading disease at a hospital near you!”
Back in August I also reported that “…a doctor with KSA’s National Guard says actual cases and deaths are much higher than what the government is reporting. She should know because she works at the King Fahad National Guard Hospital in Riyadh where, apparently for some odd reason, MERS cases there are not being included in the official reports by the Ministry of Health.”
The other three infected KSA hospitals involve two directly controlled by the Ministry of Health and one private hospital.
Since 2012, when MERS was first detected, 1,273 people in KSA became infected and 542 died. So far for 2015 the MERS death rate in KSA is at 55%.
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