South Korea has 2 more MERS cases—5 total—and Saudi Arabia reports 4 new infections.
Sierra Leone has reported three more lab-confirmed Ebola infections in two different districts, while a case detection push in Guinea's Forecariah district—a disease hot spot over the past several weeks—has turned up seven more cases, the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) reported today.
A MERS-infected man in South Korea has passed the disease to his wife and to a hospital roommate.
MERS has reached South Korea for the first time, and the UAE has identified 2 asymptomatic cases.
The UAE reports 1 MERS case and Saudi Arabia 2, while the WHO details 5 recent Saudi cases.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH), which reported 9 MERS-CoV cases on May 11, has added 3 more in the past 3 days and reported 2 deaths in previously reported cases as it is apparently grappling with a Web site failure, switching to a new—and detail-limited—reporting system, or both.
Three cases were reported May 9, and the 9 new cases today include 4 that may represent a household cluster.
Iran reports its first case since last July as the CDC posts an alert for upcoming travel to Saudi Arabia.
A 39-year-old man is the latest addition to Saudi Arabia's MERS-CoV case count. His illness was reported today by the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH).
An additional case of MERS-CoV today as well as a recovery over the weekend have been reported from Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH). They bring the cumulative totals in that country since June 2012 to 983 cases, including 428 deaths, 552 recoveries, and 3 active cases.
