June 19, 2013
Bloomberg
Excerpt - editing is mine:
The new coronavirus that’s killed
almost two-thirds of the people it’s infected, mostly in Saudi
Arabia, spreads easily in hospitals, according to the first
detailed description of the outbreak since it started in
September.
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“This is the kind of information that we need to have on a
real-time basis,” Osterholm said by phone. “If this
information was being held for the purposes of publication, that
is unfortunate.”
Globally, MERS-CoV has sickened 64 people and killed 38
since September, 32 of which have been in Saudi Arabia,
according to the World Health Organization. The source of the
outbreak hasn’t been identified, and infections in other parts
of Saudi Arabia since since today’s study was concluded show
that transmission is continuing, Osterholm said.
“It’s a dot, and it takes two dots to make a line,”
Osterholm said. “If we keep getting more information, more
dots, we can talk about a trend.”
To contact the reporter on this story:
Simeon Bennett in Geneva at
sbennett9@bloomberg.net
Complete article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-19/deadly-coronavirus-spreads-easily-in-hospitals-study.html
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