Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Dispatch
Exportations of Symptomatic Cases of MERS-CoV Infection to Countries outside the Middle East
Table 3
Country of destination |
Observed no. symptomatic cases exported |
No. cases exported from source countries (95% CI); % likelihood for >1 exportation† |
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Jordan |
KSA |
Qatar |
UAE |
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Italy‡ | 0 | 0 (0–4); 1 | 0 (0–4); 18 | NA | 0 (0–4); 8 |
Malaysia§ | 0 | 0 (0–4); 0 | 0 (0–4); 33 | 0 (0–4); 1 | 0 (0–4); 2 |
Tunisia‡ | 0 | 0 (0–4); 0 | 0 (0–4); 2 | 0 (0–4); 0 | 0 (0–4); 0 |
United Kingdom§ | 0 | 0 (0–4); 0 | 0 (0–4); 35 | 0 (0–4); 3 | 0 (0–4); 25 |
United States§ | 2 from KSA | 0 (0–4); 0 | 1 (0–5); 51 | 0 (0–4); 2 | 0 (0–4); 8 |
*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 Middle Eastern visitors to France, Netherlands, and Greece was not available. Number of Middle Eastern residents visiting Algeria and Austria was not available by country of residence.
‡Number of Middle Eastern visitors traveling to Italy and Tunisia corresponds to persons whose nationality is that of Middle Eastern source countries.
§Number of Middle Eastern visitors traveling to Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and the United States corresponds to residents in the Middle East.
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