Alert activated in the wake of MERS threat
Friday, June 13, 2014
Hong Kong has activated an alert for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome as it launched a preparedness plan for the SARS-like virus for the first time.
Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man said that under the new MERS plan, the "Alert Response Level" is activated.
The three-tier response level - Alert, Serious and Emergency - is in line with the Influenza Plan of 2012.
The response plan comes two years after the first human case of MERS - caused by the same family of coronaviruses that mutated from civet cats into the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome that spread globally.
A total of 663 confirmed cases of MERS have been reported to the World Health Organization, including 570 in Saudi Arabia, where it first emerged. http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=4&art_id=146364&sid=42436974&con_type=1&d_str=20140613&fc=8
Friday, June 13, 2014
Hong Kong has activated an alert for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome as it launched a preparedness plan for the SARS-like virus for the first time.
Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man said that under the new MERS plan, the "Alert Response Level" is activated.
The three-tier response level - Alert, Serious and Emergency - is in line with the Influenza Plan of 2012.
The response plan comes two years after the first human case of MERS - caused by the same family of coronaviruses that mutated from civet cats into the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome that spread globally.
A total of 663 confirmed cases of MERS have been reported to the World Health Organization, including 570 in Saudi Arabia, where it first emerged. http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=4&art_id=146364&sid=42436974&con_type=1&d_str=20140613&fc=8
