Lee Sang-il
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
J Prev Med Public Health. 2015 Nov;48(6):274-6. doi: 10.3961/jpmph.15.064. Epub 2015 Nov 25.
Since the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak in the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) began on May 11, 2015, a total of 186 persons have been infected by the MERS coronavirus, 38 of whom have died. With this number, Korea becomes second only to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the ranking of cumulative MERS cases. In this paper Korea's unique experience of an outbreak of MERS will be summarized and discussed briefly.
自2015年5月11日韩国中东呼吸综合征(MERS)疫情爆发以来,共有186人感染了MERS冠状病毒,其中38人死亡。据此,韩国在累计MERS病例排名中仅次于沙特阿拉伯王国,位居第二。本文将总结并简要讨论韩国爆发MERS的独特经历。