http://www.nbcnews.com/…/mers-spreads-china-korean-outbreak…
Officials are tracing at least 77 contacts.
MERS CoV is not particularly likely to be transmitted person to person outside of intimate or cohabitation scenarios and the patient was hospitalized in Guangdong who's largest city has a reasonably low population density. On the other hand, he traveled through Hong Kong which is very large and has a density higher than San Francisco's, and it has busier hospitals. A case going unnoticed there could be spread far more easily and contact tracing would be more difficult.
The outbreak in RoK, from where the China case traveled has infected at least 25 people and while it appears reasonably likely to be contained also it did when the number was 12. There are now two tertiary cases indicating sustainable transmission outside of the middle east without intervention.
Be safe, world. Wash your hands and cover your coughs.
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