Seven months after South Korea has identified its first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the country called the epidemic officially over soon midnight that night. The last patient infected with MERS virus died November 25 - no MERS but of malignant lymphoma which had also prevented to eliminate the virus. Strictly following the guidelines of the World Health Organization, the Korean authorities waited 28 days - two times longer than the incubation period of 14 days for the virus MERS - to declare the formal end of the epidemic.
the last patient, a man of 35, was already suffering from lymphoma when he was in contact with a patient MERS May 27 Getting sick on June 6, he was hospitalized at Samsung Medical Center and confirmed positive for MERS June 7 He was then transferred to the hospital of Seoul National University where he continued to show signs of the virus until successive tests on 30 September and 1 October were negative. On 2 October the Ministry of Health press release noted that 116 days was the longest a patient has never confirmed MERS remained positive. "His condition underlying immunocompromised kept his body to get rid of the virus," the ministry said.
The patient returned to the hospital with a fever on October 11 and tested again positive for MERS virus. experts from the Korea centers for disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) concluded that a certain minimum amount of genetic material of the virus (MERS is the disease) had remained dormant in the body of the patient, according to a Ministry of health press releases. despite believe that there was little risk of transmission, KCDC made 61 contacts the patient under home quarantine.
during hospitalization, the man alternately tested positive and negative for the virus. meanwhile, the lymphoma progressed and caused his death on November 25.
epidemic MERS South Korea came from a Korean man single that brought home virus after a trip to the Middle East. He sought treatment for fever and before MERS was diagnosed on 20 May, the virus had spread among health care workers and patients in several different hospitals. The epidemic has caught the South Korean health sector by surprise. The hospitals have been slow to identify and isolate those infected. And health authorities have stumbled in their initial efforts to find contacts and to enforce quarantines. But optionally worked controls. There was no new confirmed infections after July 4th. Prime Minister Korean Hwang Kyo-ahn said a "de facto end" to the epidemic, July 28. But by then it had become by far the largest outbreak outside the Middle East with 186 confirmed infections laboratory and 36 deaths.
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