KOR — LARRY ROMANOFF: 생물학적 전쟁의 실제 — 13장 – 메르스

 생물학적 전쟁의 실제 — 13장 – 메르스

Biological Warfare in Action — Chapter 13 – MERS

 

LARRY ROMANOFF — 래리 로마노프

번역:Genie S

 

Au unidentified student is checked her temperature as a precaution against MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) at Gwanghui Elementary School in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 17, 2015. The death toll in South Korea’s MERS outbreak increased Tuesday even as schools reopened and people recovered from the virus. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon). Source

2015년 6월 17일 수요일, 서울 광희초교에서 한 학생이 메르스(중동호흡기증후군) 예방 조치로 체온을 측정하고 있다. 바이러스에서 사람들이 회복되고 학교가 재개된 화요일에도 한국의 메르스 발병으로 인한 사망자 수는 증가했다. (AP사진/안영준).

 

SP -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- MERS -- November 18, 2020

MERS

 

Por Larry Romanoff –18 de noviembre de 2020

 

 

A finales de 2012, el mundo experimentó el inicio de una nueva mini-pandemia provocada por un novedoso coronavirus al que denominaron MERS (1) (2), que supuestamente se había originado en Oriente Medio y que afectó inicialmente a un pequeño número de personas en Arabia Saudita, Jordania y Qatar. Al poco tiempo se dieron algunos casos en Inglaterra en ciudadanos que aparentemente se infectaron durante sus viajes a Oriente Medio. Este nuevo virus era similar al SARS, pero se le acusó de haber mutado y haber desarrollado una capacidad para invadir las células humanas de manera más eficiente, y por consiguiente causar la muerte de alrededor del 50% de los infectados, comparado con sólo el 10% en el caso del SARS. El virus fue visto por primera vez por un virólogo egipcio en Jeddah, Arabia Saudita, mientras realizaba pruebas a un paciente con unos síntomas inusuales, y posteriormente se descubrió que este "paciente cero" y el hombre qatarí en el Reino Unido habían sido ambos infectados por virus que eran idénticos al 99.5%. (3) No existía ninguna vacuna o tratamiento para esa enfermedad y su tasa de mortalidad superó el 40%.

 

MERS -- November 18, 2020

 

  

MERS

By Larry Romanoff – November 18, 2020

 

 

 

 

In late 2012, the world experienced the onset of a new mini-epidemic from a novel coronavirus that was named MERS (1) (2) because it supposedly originated in the Middle East, at first infecting small numbers ofpeople in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar. Then England experienced a few cases where individuals apparently became infected during trips to the Middle East.This new virus was similar to SARS but was accused of having mutated and developed an ability to invade human cells more efficiently and therefore kill about 50% of those infected, compared to only about 10% for SARS. The virus was first seen by an Egyptian virologist in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia while doing tests on a patient with unusual symptoms, with the discovery soon after that this 'patient zero' and the Qatari man in the UK had been infected by viruses that were 99.5% identical. (3) There was no vaccine or treatment for the disease, and its fatality rate reached over 40% overall.

 

By early 2013 there had been nearly 100 cases, mostly centered in the Middle East with the others consisting of infected travelers to those regions (4). But two years later, by June of 2015, almost 2,500 cases of MERS had been reported, most of these being in the Middle East with almost the entire remainder being in Korea, apparently centered on the Gyeonggi provincial district. A small number of cases had been reported in about 25 other countries and, while the virus did not appear to spread easily between humans, it produced a fatality rate in some locations of almost 50% of those infected. South Korea eventually experienced almost 200 cases with about 40 deaths. (5) (6)