MERS -- South Korea
A small study in South Korea has determined that most touchable surfaces in MERS treatment units were contaminated by patients and healthcare workers, and that viable virus was shed through respiratory secretions even after patients recovered.
Writing in Clinical Infectious Diseases yesterday [17 Dec 2015], Korean investigators detailed findings on 4 MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) patients in the South Korean outbreak earlier this year [2015].
They found that
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