Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Euro Surveill. 2015 Jun 25;20(25):21163. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2015.20.25.21163

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of confirmed cases of MERS-CoV infection, South Korea, 11 May–19 June 2015 (n = 166)

Characteristics All cases
(n = 166)		 Fatal cases
(n = 24)
Age group
0–18 years 1 (1%) 0 (0%)
19–39 years 31 (19%) 0 (0%)
40–59 years 64 (39%) 5 (21%)
60–79 years 61 (37%) 16 (67%)
≥ 80 years 9 (5%) 3 (13%)
Sex
Male 101 (61%) 17 (71%)
Female 65 (39%) 7 (29%)
Occupation
Healthcare personnel 30 (18%) 0 (0%)
Not healthcare personnel 136 (82%) 24 (100%)

MERS-CoV: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.