On May 29, the Chinese public was put on alert by a notice issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission. 5月29日,国家计生委的一条消息让中国民众警觉起来。 It was about Chinas first case of Middle East respirator...
SEOUL, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Infection with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea increased to 179 Wednesday as four more cases were added, the health ministry said. Among the four cases was a 50-year-old woman contracting the viru...
Health officials and civilian specialists are reviewing the health ministry's comprehensive plan to tackle the virus.. As the total number of MERS patients has surged to 30 within two weeks, three cases of tertiary infection have been identified. Tho...
Worries are spreading among the South Korean public as 2 people have been confirmed dead from the disease. The victims include a 58-year-old woman and the other 71-year-old man, both of whom had close contact with the MERS patient earlier. As of Tues...
BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) on Tuesday issued a manual on Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) for health departments and hospitals. It contains a detailed introduction on the epidemiologi...
China's best known respirologist, Zhong Nanshan, visited the South Korean Mers patient in hospital on Tuesday. He offered his advise on preventing the spread of the virus. Dr. Zhong Nanshan became famous for his work on SARS in 2003. On Tuesday morni...
According to health authorities in Guangdong, the condition of China's first MERS patient has worsened and more medical experts have been dispatched. The patient, a South Korean national, is now receiving medical treatment in Huizhou City after testi...
A 44-year-old man from South Korea is being treated in isolation. Medical staff say he suffers from a high fever and a possibly infectious pneumonia. According to authorities, the man had close contact with his father and sister, the third and fourth...