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Friday, June 13, 2014

Hong Kong Alert activated in the wake of MERS threat

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