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Albert
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Posted: June 25 2015 at 5:54pm |
Fatality rate 17%
MERS death toll rises to 31 in South Korea outbreak, one new caseSEOUL (Reuters) - Two more patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus have died, South Korea's health ministry said on Friday bringing the total fatality to 31. The ministry also reported one new case, taking the total to 181 in an outbreak that is the largest outside Saudi Arabia. The new fatalities had pre-existing health problems, according to the health ministry. Most of the deaths have been elderly patients or those who had existing illnesses. (Reporting by Ju-min Park; Editing by Richard Pullihttp://news.yahoo.com/mers-death-toll-rises-31-south-korea-outbreak-001346968.html |
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onefluover
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Have they ever released the ages of all 181 cases?
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17% with available hospital beds and enough staff to care for them.
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onefluover
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It's looking more and more like the KSA. Very high CFR effecting almost exclusively the very elderly and or immuno compromised. But do we know if it's an equal opportunity infector, hitting the young and old alike. In other words, if that's the case, but it's almost exclusively killing elderly then the CFR amongst them must be shockingly high; 70-90%? Almost universally fatal to their group.
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Yep - the CFR for that group (elderly/pre-existing conditions) must be brutally high.
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Albert
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There are still 70 hospitalized. Wonder if the younger folk tend to hang on longer, which I'm sure they do. The avg age could change. South Korea seems to only mention the elderly with underlying conditions dying or being effected. Coincidence? Remember, there was a police officer, ambulance driver, pregnant woman, young child, and various medical staff infected. There could be some misinformation floating around that the healthy don't catch it. Perhaps as time goes on we will see the median age for deaths begin to drop. Some of those cases have been hospitalized for almost a month, so the healthy don't exactly have it easy.
In the Middle East MERS would also predominantly effect the men. In South Korea we've heard of a couple women being infected, but is it only a couple women and still mostly men? The information, or lack there of, coming out of South Korea is very controlled to prevent a panic so it's tough to know exactly what is happening. |
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