MERS: Third Person Dies And 800 Schools Now Closed As Alarm Grows In South Korea

[Purveyor]

Alexander Ward
Thursday 04 June 2015

A third person has died as the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) in South Korea continues to cause widespread panic as hundreds of schools were closed across the country.

At least 35 cases have been reported and hundreds of schools are closed in what is the largest outbreak outside of the Middle East.

Around 1,600 people have been quarantined, mostly at home, while soldiers deployed in areas near to outbreaks have been confined to their bases.

More than 800 schools in South Korea have now been closed or had classes cancelled since the outbreak, according to the Ministry of Education.

North Korea has also demanded closer border checks after South Korean authorities reported five new causes of Mers, including heat-seeking cameras to monitor temperatures of worker’s migrating to the North.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/over-800-south-korean-schools-closed-after-mers-outbreak-causes-widespread-alarm-10296157.html

[Warpy]

1. First thing you do in any contagious outbreak is ban public gatherings

which means schools, theaters, sports arenas, big meetings, and the like. The Koreans are doing it right. The more people stay home, the less chance this will have to spread.

MERS is pretty damned scary and it looks like it's going person to person instead of being a camel borne disease that requires close contact with the animals.

Shit.