South Korea MERS outbreak: Study maps transmission in South Korean hospital from one ‘super-spreader’ patient

Tracing the movements of patients at a South Korean hospital has helped identify how Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus was transmitted from a single super-spreader patient in an overcrowded emergency room to a total of 82 individuals over three days including patients, visitors and health-care workers. The study, published Friday in The Lancet, maps ["]