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中国国内出现首例MERS确诊病例

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China said on Friday a 44-year-old South Korean man had tested positive for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), China's first confirmed case, but that it had not found any symptoms in 38 people who had been in close contact with him. Health authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong said it was likely the disease would spread as the patient had taken a bus, crossed a busy border checkpoint from Hong Kong and stayed in a hotel before being taken to hospital.

First identified in humans in 2012, MERS is caused by a coronavirus from the same family as the one that triggered China's deadly 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). There is no cure or vaccine. "The virus appears to be circulating widely throughout the Arabian Peninsula," the World Health Organization (WHO) said on its website. "All recent cases that have been reported outside the Middle East first developed infection in the Middle East."

WHO said on Friday 10 people in South Korea were confirmed as having MERS, but there had been no human-to-human spread. The UN agency said that it was not recommending screening of passengers or that travel or trade restrictions be imposed on South Korea due to the outbreak.

Later on Friday, South Korea's health ministry said two more patients were confirmed to have been infected, both of whom had been in the same hospital ward as the initial confirmed cases. The patient in China, in isolation in hospital in the southern city of Huizhou, had a fever and a chest examination showed possible pneumonia, China's National Health and Family Planning Commission said.

The man, who is a son of another patient who was confirmed last week to have been infected in South Korea, had traveled to Huizhou after first arriving in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Hong Kong health authorities said 29 people had been in close contact with the Korean in Hong Kong.


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