Both cases Mers Found in United States

Both cases Mers Found in United States

Middle East respiratory disease (Mers) has spread throughout the world. With increasing flight activity between countries, the higher the risk of disease spread through people who travel from one region to another region using the transmission of flight.

Mers even spread to the United States (US), there have been two cases, as reported from Aol.com, May 12, 2014.

The latest case not involving an American citizen, but a man settler Saudi Arabia who were visiting Florida and is now in hospital in Orlando.

Victims receive Mers disease diagnosis (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) on Sunday. Respiratory disease that begins with a fever and cough as the common cold but leads to wheezing, lung disease and death.

Fortunately the cases in the US not including severe. In the first case, a man in the state of Indiana has been discharged from the hospital last weekend. The second patient is recovering, according to excerpts from hospital officials. Two cases were not related.

"The risk to the public is still very low," said Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Most cases occur in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere in the Middle East, but in the US the first case was diagnosed in mid-month to a man who was traveling from Saudi Arabia to the state of Indiana.

The man is a US citizen who worked as a health worker in a hospital in the capital of Saudi Arabia and take a flight to the US on April 24th.

Flights start from Riyadh, stopping in London and landed in Chicago. The man then boarding a bus to Munster, Indiana where he then fell ill and went to the hospital on 28 April.

The man recovered and was discharged from hospital in Munster on Friday. Test the health of the people around the victim gave nil result, demikan health officials said.

Health officials now have to keep track of people who are traveling with a man who was involved in the latter case, and now more challenging because more airlines involved.

The second patient was also a medical officer in the handling of cases of Mers, the CDC said. He traveled on May 1 of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, then to London, and Boston (USA), Atlanta (USA) and finally to Orlando (USA). He was admitted to hospital on May 8 and was treated in the isolation room.

The first is a Saudi Airlines flight 113 from London, according to an announcement the British Health Service. The US government did not mention the time for more flight information.

Health officials did not immediately announce additional details about the trip this man or his activities for a week in Florida, and only said that he did not go to any amusement park and remain around Orlando to meet her family.

This man is in Hospital Dr. P. Phillips Orlando. He arrived there with fairly mild symptoms, is stable and sound, but there is no timetable expenditure of the hospital, said Dain Weister, spokesman for the health department of the state of Florida.

Since the start of the trip, he was suffering from fever, chills, and a mild cough. But it does not mean it has to infect anyone. Experts estimate mers would be very contagious when patients with severe illness, with symptoms such as pneumonia and difficulty in breathing, Schuchat said.

However, health officials are trying to contact about 500 people in three flights in the US to inform them about the situation and alert to the symptoms. The passengers from Jeddah to London will also be contacted, demikan CDC officials said.

Risk of Death

Mers included in the coronavirus family which includes the common cold and SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) that caused 800 deaths worldwide in 2003.

Mers virus has been found in camels, but officials do not know how it is passed to humans. This disease can also be transmitted between humans, although this can occur only after close contact. Not all were exposed to the virus will get sick.

Gravity, the disease is deadly-there are some estimates that says that this disease has led to the death of a third victim. This figure is estimated to decline after health officials began to diagnose more cases, but not too badly.

Fortunately, the disease is not contagious as soon as flu, measles, or some other disease. There is no vaccine or treatment for this disease and there is no specific treatment but efforts to reduce the symptoms.

Overall there have been 538 people reported respiratory illness, including 145 deaths. So far, all the victims have links with the Middle East region or people who have traveled there. A total of five cases occurred in health workers,