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Table 1 Timing of documented case importations of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) around the world

From: Predicting the international spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)

Country

Date of arrival

Days since 3 September 2012

United Kingdom

2012/9/11

8

Germany

2012/10/24

51

United Arab Emiratesa

2013/3/8

186

France

2013/4/17

226

Tunisia

2013/5/3

242

Italy

2013/5/25

264

Omana

2013/10/26

418

Kuwaitb

2013/11/7

430

Yemena

2014/3/17

560

Malaysia

2014/4/7

581

Philippines

2014/4/15

589

Greece

2014/4/17

591

Jordan

2014/4/19

593

Lebanona

2014/4/22

596

United States

2014/4/24

598

Egypt

2014/4/25

599

Irana

2014/5/1

605

Netherlands

2014/5/10

614

Algeria

2014/5/28

632

Austria

2014/9/22

749

Turkey

2014/10/6

763

South Korea

2015/5/4

973

China

2015/5/26

995

Thailand

2015/6/15

1015

  1. The date at which an infected individual has initially entered is shown
  2. aFor these Middle East countries, illness onset date of first identified case was used as the arrival date; bThere were two cases in the first instance among which the second identified case had a history of travel to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The second case was thus defined as the imported case
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