GENEVA
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, virus has killed 446 people since 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
As of today, 40 new cases in South Korea and one in China, of which four have resulted in death, have been identified, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said in a press conference at UN in Geneva.
The number of cases in South Korea has risen steadily since the country’s first ever case of MERS infection reported last month: a 68-year-old man who had travelled to the Middle East.
There have been 1,193 cases of MERS-CoV infections globally, of which 446 have resulted in death, since September 2012 when the virus first appeared, Lindmeier said.
