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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome linked to higher mortality, more severe illness

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome linked to higher mortality, more severe illness

by | May 19, 2016 | Health Tips

Patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) develop more severe critical illness and have higher mortality than patients with non-MERS severe acute respiratory infection (SARI), according to investigators involved with the largest study of critically ill patients with MERS. The study was presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.

Until March 20, 2016, 1690 cases of MERS had been reported to the World Health Organization, with 80 percent of those cases in Saudi Arabia. The reported cases had an overall mortality of 35 percent. The investigators — led by Yaseen Arabi, MD, chairman, Intensive Care Department, and professor, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — embarked on their research because few studies have examined the clinical course of critically ill patients.

Story Source: The above post is part of a reprinted article from materials provided by American Thoracic Society.

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