{"id":51752,"date":"2015-06-14T16:33:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T08:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51752"},"modified":"2015-06-14T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T08:33:22","slug":"merciless-virus-number-of-mers-cases-in-south-korea-rises-to-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/14\/merciless-virus-number-of-mers-cases-in-south-korea-rises-to-145\/","title":{"rendered":"Merciless Virus: Number of MERS cases in South Korea rises to 145"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17951\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_193373501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17951\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_193373501.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock Photo\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_193373501.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_193373501-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MOSCOW &#8212; Seven new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) were confirmed in South Korea on Sunday taking the total to 145, CNN reported citing the country\u2019s Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen people have died from the virus in the East Asian nation since it had been first diagnosed in a 68-year-old man returning from the Middle East, last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome is a viral respiratory disease caused by the MERS-coronavirus. The infection was first reported in 2012 in Saudi Arabia and then spread to other countries.<\/p>\n<p>MERS is transferred from camels to people, with limited human-to-human transmission, according to the WHO. The infection triggers such symptoms as fever, cough and shortness of breath. There is currently no vaccine for MERS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW &#8212; Seven new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) were confirmed in South Korea on Sunday taking the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-sputnik-international-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}