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June 7th, 2015 
Awake Goy Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has infected 50 people in an outbreak in South Korea, but officials are confident it wont become a runaway Elizabeth Hagedorn: more at Transcript:Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has now infected 50 people in South Korea, and killed four. The virus, for which there is no known vaccine or treatment, has triggered a fierce Korean President Park Geun-hye has demanded that everything is done to stop an outbreak of the deadly virus MERS in her country. (Video via Euronews)More than 500 schools have been shut down in South Korea to help prevent the spread of the MERS virus, said CNNs Amara outbreak has drawn comparisons to the 2003 SARS epidemic in China, which was blamed for 774 deaths. Both come from the same family of respiratory infections known as Coronaviruses, but the medical community thinks tackling MERS will be time around, scientists can bring better identification, more accurate tracking and faster quarantine procedures to bear. One researcher told NBC, As long as the virus hasn’t changed, they’ll be on top of expect the heightened awareness and rapid response in South Korea means MERS wont take off the same way SARS did. It also helps that this new version simply doesnt have the same transmission potential. (Video via ABC)Thats when a virus has or develops the ability to quickly spread through human populations. When its potential is at or above 1, epidemics become statistically more analysis showed that absent containment procedures, SARS has a potential of about 3, meaning one case could spread it to roughly three other people. Studies have shown MERS typically spreads to people at most, and usually fewer than even accounting for so-called superspreaders, or those anomalous individuals who carry extremely high viral loads and can spread a virus to dozens of other agencies traced the origin of South Koreas outbreak to one such World Health Organization says as of now, there is no evidence to suggest sustained human-to-human transmission in communities and no evidence of airborne definitely good news: because while MERS doesnt spread as easily as SARS, it is more deadly. Where the death rate for SARS topped out at percent in its last major outbreak in 2003, MERS fatality rate is 36 2012, MERS has infected more than 1,180 people, mostly in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. Nearly 450 have : Getty for Disease Control and Journal of Health via: Getty Images / Chung Sung-
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