Times two by 1000 and that will be the number of cases in a few weeks. Then more, and more and more.
I understand the guy landed in London? If so, let see how well the Brits valued HS handles the pandemic.
So far, I can’t find any recent cases of MERS in the UK, just this, from a report about the first MERS case reported here (USA). That passenger (a health care worker) had traveled from Riyadh, through London and on to Chicago....
*****
No cases of Mers in the UK have been detected since February 2013, Public Health England said....Professor Nick Phin, head of respiratory diseases for Public Health England, said human-to-human transmission of the virus was “extremely rare”.
But he told any passengers from the flight to call 111 if they experienced respiratory symptoms or felt unwell.
Mers has an incubation period of up to 14 days, so any illness starting after 9 May would not be related, Public Health England said.
London, Boston, Atlanta, then Orlando.