The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health Quietly Announces an Additional 113 Cases of MERS
Today, the Ministry of Health (MOH) officials in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) revised upward the number of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) case and MERS-related deaths that have occurred in the KSA ( link ). As noted by Michael Coston ( link ), the KSA MOH added a total of 113 cases and 92 deaths to the official cumulative count from that county. The lack of any details for these additional cases or the individuals who died, precludes determining whether all of the unreported deaths are only from the previously unreported cases. In several instances in recent MOH media reports, there have been reported deaths that could not be correlated with previously reported cases because the combination of age/gender of the reported deaths from a specific location could not be associated with previously reported cases ( link , link ). Through yesterday, publicly reported cases from the KSA represented about 82% of all MERS cases reported from around the world. Today, with these add...