17 June 2015 (01:39 UTC-07 Tango 01)/27 Kordad 1394/29 Sha’ban 1436/02 Ren-Wu (5th month) 4713
“The virus has not yet behaved any differently to what has been observed in the Middle East, it is still only spreading in hospital settings and has not fulfilled the conditions of community transmission.”–Christian Lindmeier, UN World Health Organization
A 65 years old Middle East Respiratory Syndrome victim died in a Lower Saxony hospital, in Germany. German health administrators are now claiming the man did not die from the virus itself, but secondary infections. They say the man got sick while in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). So far 2-hundred Germans have been tested for MERS.
KSA reports the death of a 77 years old man from MERS.
Confirmed number of MERS cases in Republic of Korea (RoK) now at 162. All are connected to hospitals or ambulance services. Deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome now at 20. It’s being pointed out that the deaths involve people who were suffering from other medical problems. 19 people have been declared cured and released from hospitals.
RoK has locked down/quarantined 6,508 people as of 17 June, that’s an increase of 922 from the day before!
Administrators with China’s Fudan University and U.S. National Institutes of Health claim to have developed antibodies to MERS. They say the m336 antibody worked well in tests on non-human animals.