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Current map of the general geolocations of more than 700 local MERS-CoV infections on the Arabian Peninsula as of June 25, 2014. Location names are labeled in red. The area of the circle depicts the relative number of reported cases at that location.     Map note: On June 3, the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health announced more than 100 additional MERS cases that occurred between May 2013 and April 2014 ( link ).   No geographic information about these cases was provided by the Ministry of Health and they are not included on this map. Previous map, April 21, 2014 here .

Map of the general geolocations of more than 330 local MERS-CoV infections on the Arabian Peninsula as of April 21, 2014. Locations with 10 or more reported cases are labeled in black. The area of the circle depicts the relative number of reported cases at that location.   Reported Geolocations with 10 or More MERS-CoV Cases  Geolocation Case Count (as of April 21, 2014) Riyadh 100 Jeddah 73 Abu Dhabi 29 Al Hofuf 26 Ash Sharqiah 17 Al Ain 15 Hafar Al-Batin 11 Madinah 11

The first human infections of a novel coronavirus were identified in late of 2012. The coronavirus was later named hCoV-EMC based on genetic analysis at the Erasmus Medical Center [1].   More recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted the label MERS-CoV for hCoV-EMC [2]. As noted in a previous post,   at least 50+ MERS cases have been reported from eight countries; France, Jordan, Italy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. The nature of the transmission is uncertain, but some of these infections are occurring in hospital settings; several health care workers have been infected.   Four of these clusters, one from France, one from Italy, one from Tunisia, and one from the United Kingdom, occurred outside of the Middle East region. The index cases in all four of these clusters had previously visited countries within the Arabian Peninsula. The index cases of other clusters, as well as other individual isolated ...