Global & Disaster Medicine

Reviewing the epidemiology of MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia from 2012 when the first MERS-CoV was confirmed up to July 2015.

February 15th, 2016

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

“…..In this series, we described the risk factors and outcomes of 939 cases of MERS coronavirus in the last 3 years. The majority of the affected patients were in age of 40 years and above 65 (70%). From those 657 patients, 377 (57.3%) died….Our findings confirm the association of severe MERS coronavirus illness in patient who has pre-existent health morbidity….. ”

 

 

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