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Thursday, 11 June 2015

MERS in Korea

I have been keeping an eye on the development of the MERS outbreak in Korea. 
To date, although there are over 120 cases of MERS and 10 deaths, there are no travel advisory against travel to Korea from World Health Organisation (WHO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Ministry of Health (MOH), namely because all the cases were traced to health care settings. 
The only advice from MFA and MOH for people travelling to Korea is to take note and adopt the general health precautions such as observing good personal hygiene at all times, practise frequent hand washing, avoid people who are coughing, avoid contact with live farm or wold animals, etc.
If one adopts all the health precautions all the time, there should be no fear of contracting most diseases, whether at home or overseas. :)  

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