National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) National Coordination Centre for Communicable Disease Control, Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
Euro Surveill. 2014 May 29;19(21):20817. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.21.20817.
Two patients, returning to the Netherlands from pilgrimage in Medina and Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, were diagnosed with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in May 2014. The source and mode of transmission have not yet been determined. Hospital-acquired infection and community-acquired infection are both possible.
两名患者从沙特阿拉伯麦地那和麦加朝圣返回荷兰后,于 2014 年 5 月被诊断感染中东呼吸综合征冠状病毒(MERS-CoV)。目前尚未确定其传染源和传播方式,可能存在医院感染和社区感染。