Medical Safety & Global Health
Open Access
ISSN: 2574-0407
+44-20-4587-4809
ISSN: 2574-0407
+44-20-4587-4809
Mohammed Owais Qureshi
College of Business,
Pin Code-21911
Saudi Arabia
Research Article
World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News, Advisory and Mitigation of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Author(s): Mohammed Owais Qureshi and Rumaiya SajjadMohammed Owais Qureshi and Rumaiya Sajjad
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a fatal infectious disease that till date, since September 2012, has infected 2103 people and killed, 733 of them. MERS-CoV has infected people in almost all the habitable continents of the world except South America and Australia. The World Health Organization (WHO), in response, has taken a number of measures to eradicate it and giving advisory through, its MERS-CoV related disease outbreak news (DON) is one such measure. This research analyses the WHO advisory published in the, MERS-CoV, DON, from 25th September 2012 till 10th November 2017 and its role in generating awareness and preparedness by different governments of the world against the spread of MERS-CoV. The research was based on meta-analysis. The secondary data was collected from WHO’s, disease outbreak news and also, from the ministry of health portals of t.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2574-0407.1000138