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On 28 May 2013, the Saudi Ministry of Health reported five more cases of MERS-CoV. The cases had been "recorded among citizens in the Eastern Region, ranging in age from 73 to 85 years, but they have all chronic diseases." With this announcement, the unofficial global case count reached 49 while the death toll stood at 24 according to the CDC. [55]
Clusters of cases in several countries are being investigated." [29] [30] However, on the 28th of May, the CDC revealed that the Illinois man who was originally thought to have been the first incidence of person-to-person spread (from the Indiana man at a business meeting), had in fact tested negative for MERS-CoV.
Early cases of MERS were of Clade A clusters (EMC/2012 and Jordan-N3/2012), while new cases are genetically different in general (Clade B). [16] The virus grows readily on Vero cells and LLC-MK2 cells. [ 17 ]
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The greatest number of reported cases have occurred in Texas (384 reported cases), New Mexico (98), Illinois (100), and Arizona (49). [67] There have been at least 203 reported hospitalizations linked to the outbreak, it has caused at least one death, and it may have been a contributing factor in at least one additional death. [ 68 ]
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand confirmed on Thursday its first known case of the deadly MERS virus, a 75-year-old man who recently arrived from Oman for treatment of a heart condition. Public Health ...
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MERS outbreak: 2012–present Worldwide Middle East respiratory syndrome / MERS-CoV: 941 (as of 8 May 2021) [273] [274] 2013 dengue outbreak in Singapore: 2013 Singapore: Dengue fever: 8 2013 Vietnam measles outbreak 2013–2014 Vietnam: Measles: 142 [275] Western African Ebola virus epidemic: 2013–2016