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Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Dispatch

Exportations of Symptomatic Cases of MERS-CoV Infection to Countries outside the Middle East

Cristina CariasComments to Author , Justin J. O’Hagan, Amy Jewett, Manoj Gambhir, Nicole J. Cohen, Yoni Haber, Nicki Pesik, and David L. Swerdlow
Author affiliations: IHRC, Inc., Atlanta (C. Carias, J.J. O’Hagan); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (C. Carias, J.J. O’Hagan, A. Jewett, M. Gambhir, N.J. Cohen, Y. Haber, N. Pesik, D.L. Swerdlow); Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (M. Gambhir)

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Table 2

Estimated annual number of symptomatic cases of MERS-CoV infection exported and likelihood of >1 exportation for countries outside the Middle East among visitors to the source countries*

Country of destination
 Observed no. symptomatic cases exported
 No. cases exported from source countries (95% CI); % likelihood for >1 exportation†
Jordan
 KSA
 UAE
Algeria 2 from KSA 0 (0–4); 0 1 (0–5); 58 NA
Austria 0 0 (0–4); 0 0 (0–4); 1 NA
France 1 from UAE 0 (0–4); 0 0 (0–4); 11 0 (0–4); 9
Italy 1 from Jordan 0 (0–4); 0 0 (0–4); 3 0 (0–4); 9
Greece 0 0 (0–4); 0 0 (0–4); 1 NA
Netherlands 2 from KSA 0 (0–4); 0 0 (0–4); 5 0 (0–4); 4
Malaysia 1 from KSA 0 (0–4); 0 1 (0–5); 47 NA
Tunisia 1 from Qatar 0 (0–4); 0 0 (0–4); 19 NA
United Kingdom 1 from KSA 0 (0–4); 0 0 (0–4); 24 0 (0–4); 35
United States 0 0 (0–4); 1 0 (0–4); 27 0 (0–4); 31

*The incubation period considered was 5.5 days (95% CI 3.6–10.2 days) (8). MERS-CoV, Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus; KSA, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; UAE, United Arab Emirates; NA, not available.
†Information on tourists to Qatar was not available.

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