Epidemiological comparison
Geographical distribution.
As of 7 July 2015, 1368 laboratory-confirmed human MERS-CoV cases had been reported to the WHO, 487 of whom died (35.6%). All of these MERS cases were distributed in 26 countries, particularly predominant in the Arabian Peninsula and South Korea. However, global MERS-HCP cases occurred in 6 countries; see Table 1 and Fig 1. MER-HCP accounted for 13.37% (183/1368) of overall MERS cases in the world.